Sites of Convergence

Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts and House for the End of the World

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HEW Exhibition [The Other One] • October 11 – 14, 2025 – Goethe-Institut Boston

BU Student Exhibition [Interstice] • October 24 – 26 and October 31 – November 2, 2025 – 111 Cummington Mall

Banner image by Alicia Hamm (COM’26)

Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts and School of Music, in collaboration with the Berlin-based arts collective House for the End of the World, present Sites of Convergence, multi-site interdisciplinary exhibitions that transform less-traditional spaces into dynamic meeting points where ideas, people, and practices intersect. These exhibitions explore themes of technological reliance, urban development, and identity through experimental installations, sound, and performance, highlighting the potential of site-specific work as a catalyst for dialogue and exchange.

The Other One: Dependency, Distortion, Displacement

House for the End of the World (HEW) Exhibition

Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon St., Boston

Saturday, October 11 – Thursday, October 14, 2025, 12:00 – 7:00pm

HEW artists: School of Music Professor Joshua Fineberg, performance artist Elana Katz, and AI and visual artist Dario Srbic.

The Other One is a site-specific performative exhibition by HEW (House for the End of the World), featuring the work of three interdisciplinary artists and presented in October at Goethe-Institut Boston and subsequently at Kwadrat Galerie in Berlin, Germany. The project confronts the topics of dependency, displacement, and distortion through live performance, AI-driven sculpture, and sound installation. HEW, a nomadic contemporary art platform founded in Berlin by Elana Katz in 2020, presents its first edition outside of Germany.

Through endurance-based performance, Katz’s work activates the space and triggers Dario Srbić’s AI-driven 3D printer — a non-human performer translating her ephemeral gestures into sculptural artifacts. Joshua Fineberg’s spatialized sound environment immerses viewers in a visual-sonic experience that induces a sense of disorientation. The core conceptual themes of dependency, displacement, and distortion consider and reshape the notion of perception and interaction, encouraging reflection on shifting histories, the fragility of place, and the transitory nature of belonging.

Interstice

CFA Student Exhibition

111 Cummington Mall, Boston. Rooms B34, B36, B40

October 24 – 26 and October 31 – November 2, 2025, 12:00 – 6:00pm

CFA artists: BU School of Visual Arts BFA and MFA Sculpture and BU School of Music Composition students.

Nathan Dixon, BFA Sculpture (CFA’26)
Alexandra Flynn, BFA Sculpture (CFA’27)
Abbie Garretson, BFA Sculpture (CFA’26)
Niana Gu, MFA Sculpture (CFA’27)
Amelia Jerlach, BFA Printmaking and Sculpture (CFA’27)
M.R. Leslie, MM Theory & Composition (CFA’28)
Max Mabry, MM Composition (CFA’27)
Helena Nguyen, BFA Sculpture (CFA’27)
Jay Puplava, MFA Print Media & Photography (CFA’26)
Parastoo Shafiei, AD Composition (CFA’29)
Yifei Xu, AD Composition (CFA’29)

A cavernous garage with cracked walls and dripping ceilings; swathes of the space blocked off with chain-link fences holding stanchions used once a year; underground rooms with utility pipes thicker than 55-gallon drums; a maze of lab rooms, interconnected through endless doors that open to reveal abandoned equipment, worn furniture, and a walk-in refrigerator; rooms crammed with hundreds of microwaves and mini refrigerators; four leaking and hole-ridden classrooms full of chairs upholstered in various institutional shades and patterns, cleaning supplies, electronics, a mysterious box of coffee and tea, Polaroids of unknown subjects, a bicycle wheel, a leather sofa, a captain’s hat, a frightening feathery mask, and drywall rubble—these spaces exist at the margins of our university and were once potential sites for this exhibition.

In the basement of Boston University’s 111 Cummington Mall, the students showing work in Interstice have taken classrooms B34, B36, and B40, along with their eerie contents, as a starting point for creating site-responsive artwork. Art is, inherently, about transformation: of material, of site, of audience, of artist. Over the past month, these undergraduate and graduate students from the College of Fine Arts have undertaken the enormous task of transforming and metabolizing institutional scraps that have been left fallow, literally underground. The inner machinations which led to the partial desuetude of these basement classrooms are obscured within folds of bureaucracy, folds in which we–students, faculty, administrators–play a crucial role, whether we like it or not. Interstice examines this ambiguity of boundaries by asking what it means to create a temporary undercommons where meaning can be co-created through constraint, friction, and generative possibility.

– E. Tubergen, Assistant Professor of Art, Sculpture

Info & Credits

Exhibition photos by Alicia Hamm (COM’26) and Miranda Pikul

Sites of Convergence