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Rebecca Wilkinson
—Selected Work



i. Self-Directed

  1. Perform—Produce
  2. Common Dimensions
  3. Dis/Assembly Chair
  4. Repair
  5. Dust Chair
  6. Saturn’s Rings
  7. (New) Mechanick Exercises
  8. Air Talk
  9. 1:1
  10. Accordion Alphabet
  11. Radical Modernism
  12. Explosion Piece
  13. Atlas
  14. Five Definitions
  15. Apart—Together
  16. Upriver


ii. Commissioned

  1. Composition
  2. Supersaturated
  3. RISD Thesis Abstracts
  4. Skyroom
  5. Vector Festival 2021
  6. Vector Festival 2020
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i.2. Common Dimensions




Website (Research Platform) 
Common Dimensions    

Common Dimensions is a research platform and print publication that approaches the subject of the chair by asking deceptively obtuse questions: what makes a chair a chair? Ought a chair be defined as any object one can sit on? If so, isn’t a carpet a chair? What about a horse?
            This project investigates the chair as a symbolic, discursive, and designed object in order to explore its broad and diverse expressions: the chair as architecture, the chair as status symbol, the chair as prosthesis, the chair as locus of power, the chair as a tool. Common Dimensions seeks to expand our understanding of (and connection to) chairs through a collection of interviews with artists, designers, and collectors, an ever-expanding online visual archive, and a growing database of texts that both enlarge upon and complicate the topic.



            While much of this project inhabits the digital space, each interview is also published in a unique format that seeks to embody the key themes and ideas contained within it.

Print Issue No. 1 — Dis/Assembly
Print Issue No. 2 — Repair
Print Issue No. 3 — Dust Chair

commondimensions.com

Publications available at Draw Down here.
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