Personal Territories
Dani Dodge
2017
Interactive installation at Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
20x17-foot room
Summary: “Personal Territories” is a room-sized interactive installation that reflected on Dodge’s themes of home, formation of identity, and the secrets we hide in personal spaces. It incorporates video and sculpture while allowing members of the public to contemplate their own memories of home. Participants wrote their memories on blocks and hid them in shoeboxes, including those under the bed made of vinyl and plastic wrap that hung from the ceiling.
Materials: mattress skins, mattress foam, vinyl, videos, kaleidoscopes, shoe boxes, paint, bed sheets, wood blocks, and organza.