Work in Progress: Raft
How do we build a world from the detritus of a faltering society? How are we responsive to the environment, people, and objects around us? What are the ways that we can hold a more sacred relationship to one another? This in-progress installation from artist Yanira Castro and her design team—including Kathy Couch and RPI alum Stephan Moore—invites you to enter and effect a rumbling, buoyant, weather-like microcosm constructed of shipping pallets, clothing bundles, tarps, and emergency paraphernalia. Explore how your own actions, presence, and storytelling influence the space and atmosphere. Then stay to share your experience of the project at this early stage of development with the artistic team.
Main Image: Yanira Castro, Raft, 2025. Courtesy the artist.
Dates + Tickets
Duration: 1.5hrs
Raft was developed with support from Northwestern’s School of Communication and Wirtz Center Chicago through the Hope Abelson Artist-in-Residence fund; Perelman Performing Arts Center | PAC NYC; and Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at The Ohio State University.
a canary torsi was supported by New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2024-25.
EMPAC programs are made possible by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
