Documents the initial form of an exhibition the purpose of which was to physically transform the works themselves over the course of their tour of Alberta.Artist, Architect, and Professor Catherine Hamel inspired six of her graduate students in architecture to consider the necessity for marginalized groups to appropriate space for themselves in an urban environment that makes no room for them. This publication documents the works and ideas that those six students - Jordan Allen, Kate Anderson, Carmen Hull, Katie Pearce, and Ryan Palibroda – created to both investigate and demonstrate that concept.These students determined that everyone in society, including architects, must eventually take some space in the city and make it their own, but they also discovered the transgression that is required to do so. To illustrate and demonstrate this, they collaboratively created the works of art in the exhibition, and then sent the works off on a two-year long tour where the viewers of the exhibition were asked to confront appropriation directly, as the artists challenged all who visited the exhibition to make their own marks on the works by directly painting or drawing over the completed works.

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