Counterweight Roommate

The performers are tethered to either end of a single rope that goes through pulleys at the top of this vertical house for two. Movement from floor to floor depends on using the rope and the body of one’s roommate as a counter weight. When one occupant wishes to go up to the kitchen at the top level, the other must go down to the bathroom at the bottom. Between these two rooms are two private sleep / work rooms on levels two and four, and a common room at level three where the ends of the rope meet. Counterweight Roommatewas continuously inhabited for five full days of Scope Basel in 2011 by the artists and acquired in 2015 by New York’s Museum of Modern Art.