Our Way

University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

September, 2013

Natasha S. Reid, 2013

With Our Way, I invite audience members to engage in a collective cartographic action. The piece begins with a visual representation of the path I take to the University of Arizona Museum of Art. In this work, I invite visitors to visually and symbolically depict their own paths to this location. Through this, I ask visitors to call upon their sensorial experiences and personal stories. The seemingly risky activity of leaving one’s mark on a museum’s wall asks visitors to break through traditional barriers between museums and their publics. These actions refer to the furtive and essentially political practice of leaving one’s mark behind in public spaces, which can be associated with street art. Thus, I ask visitors to actively claim the public space of the museum by leaving their marks on this wall for the duration of the exhibition.

Natasha S. Reid, 2013