Risa Puno at Normal Space April 10, 2006
Risa Puno is officially added to the inaugural opening of Normal Space @ Flux Factory.
i stumbled upon Risa’s work at the 2006 Scope art fair in NYC. my first interaction with her work was near a door gangway, and her machine suggested something part-insectoid part-retro-space-lander (the ‘bacteriophage’).
i put a quarter in and received a capsule that i have yet to crack open. the plastic is quite tough and suspect i will need to take a hammer to it to get it open (Risa says other people step on them!).
Risa had other work available throughout Scope including a free machine that included hand-written fortune-esque phrases such as ‘I love cowboys’ or my personal favorite ‘I like to take shit apart’.
At the time I did not know these works belonged to Risa, but i was curious enough that i wrote the Scope organizers and requested if they could tell me the artist’s name given my description of the work. They eventually wrote back, informed me it was the work of Risa Puno, and i tracked down her website, which i was pleasantly surprised to see contained an image of me interacting with her previously mentioned ‘Bacteriophage’ dispenser! Great!
I’ve sent an email to Risa inviting her out for the opening. I love the spontaneity of this all.
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