Tunnel Fever: Working in unclaimable dimensions
---(more than the)Sum of Its Parts (2024)
January 25, 2024 to April 21, 2024, Class of 1928 Vitrines, First Floor, Wesleyan Library, 252 Church Street, Middletown
Co-Curated with Marina Díaz Cañedo-Argüelles, Nallely (Ellie) Salinas, and Emerson Jenisch.
Thank you Joshua Lubin-Levy and Amanda Nelson
Many of the buildings at Wesleyan University are connected by underground tunnels. An article in Hermes published in 1998 describes a broader “tunnel fever” among the campus community, suggesting that these hallowed halls have a peculiar effect on those who would lay claim to them. As institutional power has gradually taken back other student-determined space on campus over the past decades, engagements with tunnels under the Center for the Arts suggest the ongoing way the tunnels provide students with a guerilla relationship to centralized power. From the 1970s to the present, in between the gray concrete walls, the tunnels have shapeshifted into a sanctuary, archive, laboratory, shelter, and more to come.
Interview & Press Release: Art Comes to Life through Student Partnership with the Center for the Arts