Ghost Carwash

Projector, fog machine, water pump, vacuum, electronics, mixed media

Site-specific installation

- Ghost Carwash was created in collaboration with Alia Shahab for Wreck City’s Demo Tape. This site-specific installation was in a pre-demolition carwash and used mostly parts of the building in its creation. In the middle of a bay, we created a screen on which we projected film taken from various operational carwashes. At the push of different buttons, viewers could turn on the projector, fill the screen with fog, have water pour down the inside of the plastic screen, or turn on a fan and vaccum that would exhaust the fog outside of the bay. The effect was an interactive installation visually representing the ephemeral transformations occurring within our urban landscapes.