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Tarah Rhoda
Project
LIQUID LATTICE (Leaking)
About the work
Liquid Lattice is navigated through a microscopic video feed that weaves through the intimate intersections colliding and combining, magnifying the point at which the samples make contact, equalize and crystalize in reaction to each other. As one sample begins to dry up, it is flooded by the incoming gush of another, rehydrating and reanimating a network of distilled moments that otherwise would have never crossed paths.
Matter
INTERSECTING BODIES OF WATER (tears, sweat, sea, sink, etc.) plated via electrowetting on 1” X 3” glass slide
2019
Project
TEAR APART HERE (Lacrimation Tools)
About the work
The Tear Apart Here project is an ongoing series of wearable prototypes and interactive installations that aim to exploit the feedback loop of embodied emotion by inducing tears in the user. Through initiating the act of crying, users may attempt to harness a tender disposition, witness themselves perform unprocessed grief, and face the necessity of emotional labor through the convenience of consumer culture.
Matter
Silicone bulb, Inflatable globe, glass funnel, tubing, menthol, cotton
Various sizes
202
Tarah Rhoda is an artist and educator based in NYC, where she runs the School of Visual Art’s BioArt Lab, a BSL-1 laboratory that provides artists with the tools of biotechnology and fosters creative applications. Her recent art practice explores the physical principle of wetness as a metaphor for empathy, social permeability and the challenge of recognizing our fluid selves blurring at the edges. She received her BFA (2010) and MFA (2020) from SVA and also studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Her work has recently been exhibited in New York, Denver, Detroit, Toronto, Mexico City, Lisbon, Berlin, Amsterdam, Eindhoven and featured in National Geographic, the Guardian, and CBSNews.
