Community & Place
What does a building remember? What does a neighborhood need?
PS415 at Site:Lab (ArtPrize)
An interactive installation that used storytelling to connect people, understand needs, and create dialogue — rooted in the history of a single building at 415 Franklin Street in Grand Rapids. Through photographs, video testimonials from people who knew the building in all three of its incarnations, and a community table inviting visitors to share their own hopes, the installation became a living archive of a neighborhood in transition.
Collaborators: Chris Bain, Matt LaVere, Jacob Nuss, Rosa Maria Zamarron (photography); Eric Johnson, Aaron Smith, Jasmine Smith (video); Kait Smith, Greg Ward, Adrienne Young (design). A brainchild of Paul Amenta.
"Rock 'n Roll Pipeline" — Site:Lab at ArtPrize (2022)
A mash-up of Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll and the Ventures' Pipeline, performed with Mama Q and the Mudsharks at Site:Lab's Transformation Station. The piece emerged from years of learning to speak rock and roll as a second language — and stretching that language as far as it could go.