An installation of models, photographs, videos, and drawings, Red Lines immerses visitors in a landscape of pulsing capital and liquidated buildings, exploring the relation between finance and architecture. During a year-long residence at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies, designer and CUP founder Damon Rich surveyed the darkening realm of real estate markets and produced an installation to share the findings. As the Subprime Meltdown continues to spread, pushing people out of homes, bankrupting institutions, and threatening global economic crisis, Red Lines aims to broaden and enrich the urgent conversation about how our society finances its living environments.

Red Lines, Death Vows, Foreclosures, Risk Structures
An exhibition by Damon Rich and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)
Commissioned by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS)
September 9 – December 21, 2008
MIT Museum Compton Gallery
Building 10-150, 77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Free and open daily 10 am – 5 pm
http://cavs.mit.edu/artists.html?id=201,323