Come On In

2020

“Experiential training in how to inhabit this unbearable new world.“ —Miriam Felton-Dansky

Commissioned by Walker Art Center, Driscoll’s first solo exhibition Come on In transforms the Walker’s seventh floor gallery into a space of sanctuary—designed in collaboration with Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin—and offers gallery goers an enveloping sensory experience. In a space awash with ambient sound and pulsating light, visitors are invited to take a state of repose and listen to individual soundtracks of Driscoll’s voice that guide their experience through a series of prompts.

These audio works, collectively titled Guided Choreography for the Living and the Dead, demand “rethinking the stakes of human contact at both the molecular and the systemic level,” (Miriam Felton-Dansky). As visitors follow her voice, they become a collection of slowly moving sculptures activating our innate capacity to be both object and subject, observer and and observed. Driscoll writes, “With Come on In I am interested in troubling our assumed borders of skin and flesh by drawing gallery-goers into a nexus of intangible relationships to self and other.”

Experience one of the works from the Walker exhibition at home.
Please find a quiet and comfortable place to listen, put on headphones, and allow 15 minutes for this shared journey with the artist.