2015
Truck Gallery – Calgary, AB

Roulette is an interactive installation that attempts to realize the comedic trope of the ‘hallway’ or ‘doorway roulette’ as a literal space. Subverting the common corridor from a transitory place (or even a metaphorical place of discovery) into a sort of ubiquitous non-place place. Beal references the ‘fun house’ as a site of disorientation, spectacle and escapism, and conflates (or confuses) it with a sterile, innocuous sort of engineered architecture. Roulette makes use of and asks for ill-conceived logic and a slap-stick approach to take a crack at a fun feeling of alienation.

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