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Finishing School | About
Museum of _________? | 2013
Finishing School worked as creative consultants both on–site and remotely to develop a site-specific project that questioned, challenged and redirected the...
Being Chloë Flores | 2012
Being Chloë Flores was both a month-long residency experience and performance of identity that took place in March in 2012. FS used Chloë Flores's personal...
54 | 2010 +
54 is an ongoing interdisciplinary project created over several years with participation in multiple biennials, beginning with the 2010 California Biennial. 54...
dSatellite | 2010
dSatellite is a site-specific architectural structure that extends the mission of DFLUX. The project was created with the intention of providing future DFLUX...
Intergalactic HipHop Disco Jam | 2010
Intergalactic HipHop Disco Jam is a site-specific intervention and film initiated on the evening of the Summer Solstice, 2010 in Detroit, MI. The motivation of...
Postwar Art | 2010
Postwar Art (PWA) was a site-specific workshop and protest held at MOCA Los Angeles in response to the museum's exhibition with the same title. PWA was...
Go | 2010
Go encouraged visitors at the Contemporary Museum (Baltimore, MD) to stop what they were doing at the museum and head to the street. There was no required...
M.O.L.D. | 2009
M.O.L.D. is a hot zone-themed installation and workshop that investigates food in crisis. Specifically, the science, politics, and culture of food...
WETLAB | 2009
WETLAB is a multi-initiative project that addresses the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. WETLAB presents...
Faking Franz West | 2009
Faking Franz West is a suite of counterfeited objects and site-specific actions deployed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art during Franz West's...
Finding Joy | 2008
Finding Joy (a military term describing the act of making radio contact) was a site-specific audio workshop and radio broadcast at the Museum of Contemporary...
Executive Order Karaoke | 2008
Executive Order Karaoke was a public action performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Participants were invited to sing their favorite mixes...
Little Pharma Drug Run | 2008
Little Pharma Drug Run was a costumed 10 mile bike tour that explored various drug distribution sites of downtown Los Angeles. Participants met at MOCA where they...
Little Pharma Physic Garden | 2008
Little Pharma Physic Garden is a participatory installation that promotes education, community involvement, natural beauty, relaxation and renewal. The...
Little Pharma Gardening Workshop | 2008
Little Pharma Gardening Workshop was presented at Fringe Exhibition by Finishing School for the Little Pharma Physic Garden exhibition. Participants were...
Little Pharma Meditation Workshop | 2008
Little Pharma Meditation Workshop was presented at Fringe Exhibition by Chris Hoff for the Little Pharma Physic Garden exhibition. Chris presented multipe...
Bio-Tag | 2008
Bio-Tag raises awareness of dangerous toxins present in the physical environment through the deployment of searchable “tags” made from natural materials....
Improvised Explosive Data | 2008
Improvised Explosive Data confronts audiences with exciting participatory laptop performance, provocative sounds, explosives ideas, startling mash-ups, and...
wwfsd? | 2007
wwfsd? was a year-long ideation project designed to challenge the members of the collective with daily interaction. Each day a new idea was negotiated between...
Kapital for Kids | 2007
Kapital for Kids is an online game environment for children and their parents parodying the various relationships between children's media entertainment,...
Hegemonic Hybrids | 2007
"They did it again! They combined the Hummer's utility and bunkered ferociousness used on the battlefield with the authoritative detailing of a Police cruiser....
202-456-1414 | 2007
202-456-1414 is a video installation that revitalizes a challenge made by former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker. He said "Everybody over there should know...
Public Interaction Objects | 2006
Public Interaction Objects (PIO) is a series of low-tech participatory objects. They are physical interfaces engineered to create meaningful interaction with...
Tactical Media Cookbook | 2006
Tactical Media Cookbook is database website that presents real project recipes from the battlefield. Cookbook categories include: tactical media, culture...
Open House | 2005
Open House facilitates a temporary coalition of people from various networks of experience, framed in a domestic setting for the simple purpose of creating...
Delocator.net | 2005
Delocator.net is a web project originally developed and launched by Finishing School with Vasna Sdoeung. It went live on April 1, 2005 at the San Francisco Art...
Because We Forget | 2005
Because We Forget are ongoing tactical actions that deploy information regarding marginalized, overlooked, and forgotten groups, ideas, and narratives into...
The New Green | 2004
The New Green is a series of design initiatives that investigate critical issues facing our planet and puts forward obtainable solutions on a personal and...
Walker | 2003
Walker is a library of site-specific audio-guided tours designed to invite participants to go out and physically explore. The tours are multi-voiced with...
The Patriot Library | 2003
The Patriot Library was a real working library first presented at Lucky Tackle in Oakland, CA that provided users access to books, periodicals, and other media...
Re-image | 2003
Re-image was a real-time hacking action performed at nightclub in New York City. FS members pulled screenshots from the nightclub's web-based video surveillance...
Measure FS | 2002
Measure FS is a DIY workshop and toolkit for challenging any election by jamming the already saturated media landscape with your own initiatives and candidates,...
This Red Kerosene Lantern | 2002
This Red Kerosene Lantern was a curiosity action performed by a member of Finishing School, who armed with a metal kerosene lantern as a carry-on, successfully...
Today It's Voluntary | 2002
Today It's Voluntary was a security action and workshop performed on unsuspecting participants that demonstrated how quickly "free" people would voluntarily...
Saturday School | 2001
Saturday School was a nomadic teaching institution inserted into several traditional exhibition spaces with the intention of temporarily rewriting their spatial...