A TEMPORARY EXHIBITION - GIANT EAGLE Spare Room's second Temporary Exhibition happened inside a Giant Eagle grocery store in Pittsburgh's North Side. By affixing about 30 submissions from all over the world to the back of cereal boxes on aisle 3, Spare Room encouraged the unassuming shopper to take part in an unadulterated experience with a work of art. 

WSPR Spare Room Radio, WSPR, is a radio station that broadcasts music to the 300 Block of S Elm Street in Greensboro via home theatre speakers. The station is totally dependant on the requests of passersby. WSPR has traveled nationally broadcasting music for the people, by the people. 

LIFE AFTER DEATH Spare Room brought in Gabriel Serpa, Harry Swartz-Turfle, and Tony Tirri for this production celebrating the life and legacy of The Notorious B.I.G on the anniversary of his death. The public was invited to experience with all of their senses, Life After Death, the culminating masterpiece by one of the greatest artists of all time. 

INTERESTING PEOPLE In September 2010, Spare Room issued an open invitation for the public to take part in an experiential photography project. Participants were asked to meet and photograph an interesting person and record the person's name, neighborhood, and favorite song. The results were compiled and shared with the public in November 2010.

THE INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL PRACTICE IN THE NEW SOUTH The Institute for Social Practice in the New South is an unaccredited MFA program which addresses topics like location, race, and history. 


 

THE 50 MILE CLUB The 50 Mile Club is a collaboration between Adam Moser and Donovan McKnight which encourages risk taking during travel. The destination is determined by the odometer. Once McKnight and Moser turn 50 miles they approach the closest independently owned restaurant and break bread together in the midst of a new community.


 

END CREDITS End Credits is a video installation that takes as its subject matter the entire workforce of the Portland Building—the City’s chief municipal public service building. After collecting the names and job titles of every single employee in the Portland Building Adam created a list of scrolling movie credits that would loop all day in the building. By highlighting the unknown or perhaps unseen jobs and departments within the Portland Building viewers got a better sense of what happens inside the walls of this civic and architectural landmark.


  

ICE CREAM Spare Room’s show Ice Cream paired writer and artist together to meet up and interact with one another over ice cream. The artist and writer documented this process by asking a third party to take a photograph. The makers then went their separate ways and created a ‘work’ influenced by or based upon this exchange.

JOHN KOVACH John Kovach has worked the turnstiles at the Rose Quarter (the home of the Portland Trail Blazers) for 31 years. Adam made him a banner in honor his many years of service identical to those that hang high in the rafters honoring past Blazers legends.


 

PARKING PARDONS Parking Pardons took place in New York City's Lower East Side. Spare Room found 11 cars with parking citations and discretely placed cash inside each ticket's envelope leaving the driver of the car an unexpected surprise.