Robin Schwartzman, SubPar
“SubPar treats the building itself as a rube goldberg contraption for delivering golf balls from the second floor to the first floor.”
Like Molly Reichert and Sean Higgins’s Boolean View, Piotr Szyhalski’s Malignum Aditum Puncti, and Aaron Dysart’s Second Growth, Robin Schwartzman’s SubPar punctures Alma Lights to connect two spaces. What is different about untitled is that rather than revealing hidden aspects of the building’s architecture it obfuscates them, even creating a dummy ball run on the first floor. untitled is a site for activity not, necessarily, contemplation. It treats the building itself as a rube goldberg contraption for delivering golf balls from the second floor to the first floor. And as you avidly watch the ball’s route, in fact, your attention is drawn to different elements and artifacts of Alma Lights. What was that wall groove for? Where did that lampshade hole come from? Was there a gutter inside the building somewhere and if so, what for? To play SubPar is to puzzle the building. Enjoy.