Was the Convergence Center installation the first collaboration between project InCUBATE and Material Exchange?
AS: Our installation at the Convergence Center wasn’t our first collaboration with Material Exchange. At the end of 2007 we invited them to participate in our traveling series of exhibitions called Other Options. This series of exhibitions features artists whose work addresses the current climate of funding and (lack of) new infrastructural support for the arts. For the show, Material Exchange constructed a multi-player pinball machine from salvaged material. As an attempt to recoup the machine’s fabrication expenses, exhibition visitors are invited to play pinball for $1 per game, thus economically activating the sculpture while calling to mind issues of proper compensation for creative labor. The pinball machine was displayed as part of Other Options in Grand Rapids, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, and New York City. CK: At the Convergence Center installation of Sunday Soup, both of your groups collected and produced a functional café, including everything from a cashier counter and dining tab
