Drop the Gaze is a participatory installation created for Yale CCAM Fest: Fluxus 2026, a festival celebrating experimentation, participation, and interdisciplinary art practices. Inspired by Fluxus principles of audience engagement and simple actions as artistic gestures, the project invites visitors to reflect on the social and emotional weight of judgements.
The installation consists of tops covered with eyes-graphic pins. Participants are invited to remove a single eye, discard it into a trash can creating sounds, and walk away. Through this small but deliberate action, the work transforms spectators into contributors, turning the collective space into a record of choices, encounters, and acts of release.
Drop the Gaze is a participatory installation created for Yale CCAM Fest: Fluxus 2026, a festival celebrating experimentation, participation, and interdisciplinary art practices. Inspired by Fluxus principles of audience engagement and simple actions as artistic gestures, the project invites visitors to reflect on the social and emotional weight of judgements.
The installation consists of tops covered with eyes-graphic pins. Participants are invited to remove a single eye, discard it into a trash can creating sounds, and walk away. Through this small but deliberate action, the work transforms spectators into contributors, turning the collective space into a record of choices, encounters, and acts of release.
