The Thing About Words

The Thing About Words is a temporary installation and interactive experience that examines the way words are imbued with significance. Using elements of chance, technology, and performance, along with a familiar literary device, participants playfully interpret meaning from random combinations of words. A display shows three randomly-selected words and relates them to each other as a simile. Using an oversized wall-mounted keyboard, the viewer is challenged to fill in the blank, though the relationship between the words is nonsensical. The new word will be revealed, completing the simile, and then entered into an accumulating database of terms for future interactions.

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