OOIEE

Site: Cherokee Street Buddhist Temple

OOIEE views its practice as performing ​with​ its influences, creating a continuity of time and complicating notions of creation. For ​Counterpublic,​ OOIEE crafted a pair of iconic Donald Judd corner chairs cast entirely of birdseed. Sited outdoors at the Cherokee Street Buddhist Temple, the chairs will be eaten and weathered away over the course of their run, becoming themselves through their consumption.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

OOIEE (Office Of Interior Establishing Exterior) was founded by Matt Olson (formerly RO/LU) to work on projects related to contemporary art, design, architecture and the landscape... but also extends to teaching, speaking, video, publishing and more. Informed by a love of research and a profound trust in the emergence of ideas through a commitment to the belief that motion is the ultimate collaboration. OOIEE teaches in the School of Architecture at the University of Minnesota and has given talks at Cranbrook, SCIArc, UIC (Chi), SAIC (Chi), SCAD (Savannah) and OCAC’s MFA AC+D program. The work has been shown at the Aspen Art Museum, Fisher/Parrish Gallery, the Walker Art Center, Haus der Kunst, Volume, Etage Projects (Copenhagen) and lives in private and public collections internationally. The studio has been featured in PIN-UP Magazine, NYTimes, WSJ Magazine, Metropolis and elsewhere.