Join us for a puppet show in partnership with Bob Baker Marionette Theater at Young Architects Program (YAP)! Watch Leah Wulfman and Jin Meisenberg’s inflatable and deflatable forms become activated and animated with exciting puppet performances!
This program is free and accessible to all ages. We recommend participants arrive early to secure a spot outside the storefront and encourage audiences to bring a blanket, folding chairs, or cushions to make the viewing experience more comfortable. Please note that there is no bathroom at the storefront.
Young Architects Program (YAP), a collaboration between Leah Wulfman and 5-year-old Jin Meisenberg, invites participants to bounce upon their understanding of space through an inflatable video game and mixed reality architecture installation.
Through a series of asynchronous discussions and collaborative drawing exercises, Jin and Leah continuously imagined and brought to life the other’s images and interpretations. Young architects and forever kids can similarly freely reinterpret, reenvision, and remap the inflatable and deflatable architectural forms within the exhibition. With crayon and marker in hand, participants of all ages have the agency to be game and space makers, bridging physical and digital play learning as their own paper crayon drawings are live projection mapped onto the inflatables and existing drawings.
The two- and three-dimensional inflated forms and drawn reinterpretations play off common architectural elements and features, toy blocks and kit-of-parts building toys, but tend instead toward queer means and ends. In concept and as full-scale inflatables, the toys flop over one another; they sag, they deflate, they inflate, they get soft, they get hard, they pile and plug into each other.