Residuals (Aster/Allen Topolski)

Residuals is an installation of objects and materials that operates at the intersection of (imagined) domesticity and (creative) productivity/industry.

An artist residency is a place where art construction intersects with the functional necessities of life. Residuals presents an imagined intersection of the makers of this project and the notable artists who participated in the Artpark Residency in the '70s and '80s. The cabins in which they stayed were once built on these concrete slabs; the fabricated remnant on each slab references a particular artist that attended the Artpark Residency. Allen Topolski and Aster Topolski (father/daughter) seek to emphasize the path that was cleared by the artists who preceded them - those who laid the groundwork for the many conceptual approaches they exploit in their own current work. 

“Owned and operated by New York State, Artpark opened in 1974 as an unprecedented experiment in artist-public interaction and site-specificity that balanced a populist mission with the commissioning of some of the most avant-garde, investigational art of its day.”¹

Look for the QR code at each site; a scan of it will provide insight to the artists and the work that influenced the installation. 

Please do not touch any components of the installation.                                                                                                                                      ¹https://ubartgalleries.buffalo.edu/exhibitions/artpark-1974-1984/