Bubbler Room Residency
Bubbler Room Residency
TetraPAKMAN
Doing Something!
September 2024 - March 2025
TetraPAKMAN’s art practice focuses on giving climate a voice in the community. He sees the people as a medium and shares his techniques with them to create community-generated social sculptures. Using reclaimed materials (plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, plastic lids) they transform the space around them while exploring big ideas. TetraPAKMAN utilizes art making as a way of doing something about the state of our environment and the world we’re creating as our future.
TetraPAKMAN was one of MPL's first artist-in-residence back in 2013. Tenish years later, his upcoming residency will reflect back on the last ten years and launch us into the next decade. TetraPAKMAN will explore the question of what does your next decade look like?
Who is TetraPAKMAN?
TetraPAKMAN is a Madison-based artist who has long considered concepts around conservation, and often creates using repurposed/recycled materials. TetraPAKMAN’s practice is focused on community-generated social sculpture projects. His work is about the future, and the challenges we face today as a community. He explores the role of art as a mechanism to generate awareness about the climate crisis.
TetraPAKMAN has collaborated with MPL in a number of ways over the last 10+ years including:
The Meadowridge Art Project and permanent piece: Eleven Madison Elements (2014)
An 8-week Making Justice project called ARTinside where he worked with teens in the Juvenile Detention Center to transform their spaces with site-specific installations made from recycled materials in the cafeteria.
Multiple exhibitions Bubbler Made (2014) and Calculations, Abstractions, and Silence (2015) and MUNICIPAL (2017).
You will also see three workshops within the Care & Repair series facilitated by him that are coming up!
“I am committed to creating climate awareness and I focus my actions and work on social justice every day.
When I am working with people, most of the time, the experience becomes full of joy... our presence and the opportunity to share personal experiences and resources to take action just adds significance to our moment together.”
Open Studios
Join TetraPAKMAN by Doing Something!
Tuesdays mornings from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (9/10, 9/24, 10/8, 10/22, 11/19, 12/3, 12/17, 12/31)
Tuesdays evenings from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (9/17, 10/1, 10/29, 11/12, 12/10)
Fridays mornings from 9:00 am - 11:00 am (9/20, 10/4, 11/1, 11/15, 12/13, 12/27)
Visitors of all ages are invited to come by the Bubbler Room and work with TetraPAKMAN on engaging, tactile art-making out of recycled materials. Whether we’re building a large-scale, community-generated social sculpture or creating the unthinkable through cardboard construction we need your help!
Some of his ongoing projects include painting bedsheets for a upcoming installation, creating messages out of old keyboard keys or using everyday objects like lids, boxes, and twist-ties to make larger than life sculpture forms.
Many of TetraPAKMAN’s projects scale up or down based on age and timeframe — so come by for 5 minutes, an hour, or more and we will be Doing Something. We’d love your creative additions as he works to transform the Bubbler Room at Central Library!
Workshops
Imagining Our Possible Futures with TetraPAKMAN
August 24, 10am - 12pm at Central Library
September 7, 10am - 12pm at Sequoya Library
November 4, 4:15-6pm at Goodman South Madison Library
Little, medium and big geniuses wanted!
Let’s explore our challenges and discover ways of caring for our environment while we put hands on reclaimed materials to build our biggest dreamed solutions, machines to solve problems or devices that auto repair themselves. Join TetraPAKMAN in this workshop where creativity will follow science (fiction) to imagine and prototype solutions.
This family friendly program is appropriate for all ages. No registration required.
These workshops are a part of the Care & Repair series which will take place for three months across all nine library locations, and will feature a number of artists, speakers, and organizations who will lead or facilitate programs.
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Residencies at Central Library are supported by the Evjue Foundation, Madison Arts Commission, and Scooter Software. TetraPAKMAN’s residency is supported by the Friends of Madison Public Library.
