How Oppenheimer's complex artworks break down barriers between art,
audience and architecture
This publication documents the four interactive artworks by New
York-based artist Sarah Oppenheimer (born 1972) created for the Wellin
Museum of Art at Hamilton College in the context of her greater artistic
oeuvre.
Printed in five color with foil stamping, with striking reproductions
and contributions by Tracy L. Adler, Suzanne Keen, Sarah Oppenheimer and
Seph Rodney, the book explores the artist's multifaceted approach to
empathy, agency, audience and cocreation, among many other themes in her
work. Oppenheimer considers the space of the museum as a site of
experimentation, where visitors experience the curiosity and joy of
transforming the artworks themselves. In Oppenheimer's words, "You have
to enter the temporal network in order for the work to exist."