Indianapolis Island: Give & Take

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About Indianapolis Island: Give & Take

www.imamuseum.org/page/give-take

Andrea Zittel has designed a floating island titled Indianapolis Island to be installed in 100 Acres’s 35-acre lake, a dominant feature of the park’s landscape. About 20 feet in diameter, the island will be fully inhabitable and will serve as an experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings.

Each summer the Island will be occupied by one or two residents, who are also students from Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis.

This year's students are Michael Runge and Jessica Dunn. They will collaborate with Zittel by adapting and modifying the island’s structure according to their individual needs. The project, Give & Take, blends elements of environmental art, sculpture, design and performance in a unique way, offering a challenging and experimental forum for exploring ideas about individualism and self-sufficiency, which have long-standing connections to the history of modernism.