{"id":350022,"date":"2018-11-15T12:53:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T17:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=350022"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T18:56:36","slug":"play-ground-art-installation-medina-new-york-memory-nostalgia-350022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/play-ground-art-installation-medina-new-york-memory-nostalgia-350022\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty high school becomes a playground for artists exploring memory, nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memory holds a central place in the human experience, in many ways even defining identity. The fleetingness and permanence of memory inspired a recent collaborative art project at the former Medina High School, in Medina, New York.<\/p>\n<p>The large, Victorian-era building hasn\u2019t been used as a school in many years. Its empty rooms and halls this fall became fertile ground for artists from Toronto, New York, and places in between. Named \u201cPLAY\/GROUND\u201d by the curators, the immersive art project offered 29 original art installations in classrooms, hallways, stairwells, the gymnasium, and the auditorium. Each piece was created on site in less than a week; in a gesture toward ephemerality, the project was on view for only one weekend before being dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QN2b5Hzw5tQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Allen Topolski, an associate professor of art at the URochester, made the piece \u201cA Common Inculcation.\u201d The act of remembering has long shaped his work, and he drew from Medina\u2019s 1950 high school yearbook to produce an elaborate display of projections, screens, and portraits.<\/p>\n<p>Yearbooks, he says, are a kind of index to a \u201cpivotal moment in most people\u2019s lives,\u201d and he calls his piece an exploration of the \u201cgray area\u201d between memory and nostalgia.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"background: #ccc; padding: 20px;\">\n<h3><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/news\/memory-and-forgetting\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-332632 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/fea-memory-forgetting-review-193x117.jpg\" alt=\"illustration of a human face being constructed out of boxes by a construction crane to illustrate how memory is built\" width=\"193\" height=\"117\" \/>Committed to memory<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cI mostly come to memory through objects, which I see as remnant, component, evidence, keepsake, memento, document, heirloom, or souvenir\u2014and I enjoy the investigation of the subtle differences between them.\u201d Allen Topolski joins other Rochester artists and scientists to answer the question: How does memory shape our sense of who we are?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>In photos: More from\u00a0\u201cPLAY\/GROUND\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>(Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ photos \/ J. Adam Fenster)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350062\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350062 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-1.jpg\" alt=\"artist Allen Topolski stands next to a classroom door, lit from behind and showing the silhouette of a person\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-1-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Topolski, Ä¢¹½´«Ã½ associate professor of art, poses with his installation at the &#8220;PLAY\/GROUND&#8221; art exhibition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350072\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350072 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-2.jpg\" alt=\"a white room completely full of white balloons\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-2-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A piece by Kyla Kegler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350082\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350082 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-3.jpg\" alt=\"a large room with a wooden floor, and on the floor are wooden blocks the appear to form a cityscape or skyline\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-3-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works by Kyle Butler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350092\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350092\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350092 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-vertical.jpg\" alt=\"a stair case of an old building, and on each step there is writing so that the whole staircase spells out THE TRUE OBJECT OF HUMAN LIFE IS PLAY. EARTH IS A TASK GARDEN: HEAVEN IS A PLAYGROUND \" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-vertical.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-vertical-420x630.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-350092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Works by Elizabeth Cooper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_350102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-350102\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-350102 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-4.jpg\" alt=\"large room filled with colorful, star shaped balloons\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/play-ground-4.jpg 1000w, 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