Megan Lavelle

My work tends to fol­low a sim­i­lar pro­ce­dure of obser­va­tion, eval­u­a­tion, and action. Treat­ing each project like a pseudo-scientific social exper­i­ment, I estab­lish a set of con­trols with the human vari­ables invited to oper­ate and exper­i­ment inside these para­me­ters. Rest Stops and How We Dwell both uti­lize the con­sis­tency of the archi­tec­ture as a neu­tral envi­ron­ment allow­ing the expe­ri­ence to inform the result­ing art work, how­ever the rest stops are a found dynamic or a social ready-made and each How We Dwell is a set of con­di­tions I have constructed.

My role remains omnipresent and objec­tive with each as I move through the var­i­ous rest stops and as each par­tic­i­pant of How We Dwell min­gles amongst my domes­tic car­nage. Ulti­mately in my work, I attempt to reveal the intri­cate and often­times absurd nature of social inter­ac­tion through the manip­u­la­tion of exte­rior struc­tures in order to shed light on the human con­di­tion. Within this dynamic I am artist, cura­tor, and facil­i­ta­tor; a multi-faceted role where I am happy to probe, prod and ponder.