The application we choose for this project was a microsite, which can be viewed here. Below is an excerpt from the introduction:

” The title of this project, It’s Easier to Talk About Art While Talking About My Apartment, references a reenactment of >Ben Kinmont’s< project, It’s Easier to Talk About Art While Washing Dishes, which was preformed by Avalon and myself in the kitchen of his apartment as a way to get our conversation started—a transcript of the reenactment can be found immediatelybelow this introduction. We both decided that staging such a conversation in his apartment was a logical platform from which to consider the ideas and methodologies at play in his work. Avalon has a remarkable ability to formulate this thinking from the everyday milieu of life. So through the course of things we examine his, in the place where he spends most of his time.

As we talked, Avalon lead me through the architecture of his apartment building–a dormitoryhousing unit on the Portland State University campus–its interior, and the many things he’s collected therein. The significance of a seemingly insignificant rock collection, like those many of us might share, offer a window into a type of thinking that doesn’t necessarily restrict “Art” (using the word here sounds almost silly) to the confines of formalized institution by means of an acute understanding of how such objects are imbued with meaning by those human individuals who might choose to posses them—for one reason or another. A stack of old records or a dozen paintings acquired at a thrift store prove to further reinforce this point. The physical space such items might occupy—including the living beings that might be found there as well—are of importance, such as how the door is positionedto the wall which may divide it from the rest of the room. In fact, the very photographs and text, which constitutethe whole of this monograph, are significant in their re-presentation.”