Ronit Eisenbach

Ronit Eisenbach is an architect, artist, curator and educator whose scholarship and multi-disciplinary, spatial practice, StudioRED aims to spark dialogue through in situ shared experience about the world we make for ourselves. Combining visual art, performance, design, and architecture, she explores how perceptions of subjective, invisible and eph... emeral objects affect understanding and experience of place. Her collaborative public practice includes site-specific installations and performances located in moments and sites-in-transition. A creative team builder, her works invites active participation, engaging a wide-range of partners in the ongoing effort of transforming, enhancing and attending to place. Over the course of her career, Eisenbach has developed spatial strategies for joining architecture installations, exploratory performances and public participation in situ. Her ephemeral works spark dialogue about our relationships with the places we make for ourselves and with one another. Situated within museums, abandoned buildings and on public streets, Eisenbach's projects simultaneously operate at (and connect) two spatial and temporal scales -- the intimate scale of the individual and the public scale of the city-- developing works that consider and intertwine the two. At the level of the individual, it is often the hand, its ability to touch, to mark, to make and to destroy that figures strongly in her work while at the city scale, her interventions serve as active place-making efforts capturing and transforming the public realm through temporary inhabitation or new use. Eisenbach's work underscores how in-between places and transitional moments are particularly rich for uncovering and making visible essential aspects of our shared humanity. Tapping into a wide-range of emotions informed by place and shaped by people, her works offer opportunities for new rituals and meaning-making within the inherent tensions between flux and stability. Her public collaborative practice operates as "an action lab" ...Read More