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True Cost Market is a research project and installation/exhibition exploring how the costs of food are affected by various social and environmental issues. The final result of the project will be a supermarket-like installation where visitors can playfully engage with critical food justice issues in a familiar setting.

Our initial…

Wildcat Hauling is a suite of multimedia projects documenting the phenomenon of public dumping in US cities. The project began around a collaborative effort to address the problem of “illegal” dumping in Oakland, California, involving a coalition of private junk haulers and scrappers for coordinated pickups of West…

A collection of collections submitted from artists all around the world, shown in our Seattle space in 2012. Featuring: The world’s largest collection of “mailpiece security screens” (or envelope patterns). A collection of “meteorwrongs” (rocks mistakenly identified as meteorites) from Arizona…

The nearly-universal human pastime of talking about the weather has taken on added political significance now that consequential weather phenomena are being linked to human activity. An observation as innocent as “Sure is hot outside” can lead to heated debates.

The “Polar Vortex” which recently affected large areas of …

Chase Pyramid was a proposal FICTILIS contributed to the Bank Heist Contest organized by the Center for Tactical Magic with support from Southern Exposure. The contest called for a detailed proposal for an actual bank robbery, defined as “the act of unlawfully seizing cash or other assets located in or travelling to/from a financial…

Not For Sale was a show FICTILIS organized in July 2011 featuring work that was, for a variety of reasons, not for sale. Literally. The show was a smashing success – nothing sold.

Work with no price tag. Work you promised for a friend. Work so good, so bad, or so personal, you decided to keep it for yourself. Private work, public work.…