Finishing School is an interdisciplinary artist collective that explores contemporary social, political, and environmental issues. Their projects conflate praxis, play, and activism and seek to engage audiences through various participatory models. Finishing School was established in 2001 and is based in Los Angeles.

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Open House, 2005

Open House - Hoff Residence, 2005

The mission of Open House is to facilitate a temporary coalition of people from various networks of experience, framed in a domestic setting for the simple purpose of creating meaningful experiences in a space that was previously inaccessible. FS agents hope that each Open House creates disclosure, vulnerability, and interaction for each of the participants.

Domestic spaces can create physical and social barriers between the structural inhabitants and their surroundings. FS agents recognize that the motivations for such barriers are complex and varied. The following are a few of the more obvious reasons: provide security from the physical and social elements, cultivate and protect class position and values, and maintain privacy. These motivations can create curiosity, isolation, and even animosity for those in the surrounding spaces.

Open House participants are drawn to the home by real estate style advertisements, street signage, and personal invitations. Neighbors, friends, snoops, looky-lous, voyeurs, potential buyers, and the like, can all enter and explore the home, mix with other people, and meet and learn about the inhabitants and the neighborhood. Open House is an ongoing action. Photography by Danny Gross.

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dSatellite, 2010
IHDJ, 2010
Postwar Art, 2010
M.O.L.D. 2009
Go, 2009
WETLAB, 2009
Faking Franz West, 2009
Finding Joy, 2008
Executive Order Karaoke, 2008
Little Pharma, 2008
Bio-Tag, 2008
See And Be Seen, 2008
Improvised Explosive Data, 2008
Kapital For Kids, 2007
WWFSD?, 2007
Hegemonic Hybrids, 2007
202-456-1414, 2007
Tactical Media Cookbook, 2006
PIO, 2006
Open House, 2005
Delocator.net, 2005
Because We Forget, 2005
The New Green, 2004
Gap, 2004
Walker, 2004
Re-image, 2003
The Patriot Library, 2003
Talent Show, 2003
Side By Side, 2003
Measure FS, 2002
This Red Kerosene Lantern, 2002
Today It's Voluntary, 2002
Saturday School, 2001