Museum Confidential was an exhibition at The Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK, that ran from October 2017 to May 2018. It’s goal was to: “turn Philbrook inside out, revealing practices, stories, and an unprecedented number of never-before-seen works of art. ”

Andy was commissioned to create a site-specific installation for the exhibition, as well as serving as an artist in residence for the duration of the show.

The result, “At the Intersection of Everywhere” was created to play with ideas of museumology, collecting, audience, and programming. The main components of the installation were a Route 66-esque Motel Lobby, Motel Everywhere, an interactive Teaching Platform, a Local Lamps collection, a Local Knowledge library, and a piece on loan from The South London Museum of Maritime Kinetics. Many of these were built on movable platforms built to allow fragments of the installations to be mobile, and show up in different locations in the museum. Each time you came back during the run of the exhibition, something would have changed or moved, allowing everyone who saw the show to have a slightly different experience.

Motel Everywhere

Guests were invited to write in the Motel registry, and the lobby served as a setting for dozens of concerts by local and regional musicians. The Motel Clerk would engage visitors, and ask them for their favorite places they’ve visited, or something interesting from their home town that they would like to share. Those stories were put into the Motel registry, and Andy chose selections to illustrate and place in the Motel cubbies.

Local Lamps Platform

A moveable platform with lamps and lights on loan to the museum from members of the Tulsa community. After a month inside the exhibition, the platform was rolled into another part of the museum.

The Teaching Platform

The Teaching Platform hosted regular presentations and events on a wide range of topics including: Stratego, teenagers discussing and playing Minecraft, a lecture on Bouguereau’s foot fetish, embroidery workshops, an “Art & Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, and the option of posing for pictures with an Off-Season Santa.

Local Knowledge library

A custom made bookshelf displayed donated sets of encyclopedias and books of knowledge from local Oklahoma basements.

Local Signage

Large scale re-creations of various signs from around the Tulsa area

On Loan – Rotating Ship Platform

A piece from the collection of The South London Museum of Maritime Kinetics, set on a mobile platform that moved around to various locations in the museum.