Sidebottom (2018)

Sidebottom was an installation by Johnny Beaver and Shawn Creeden (http://shawncreeden.com/) that ran in Oregon State University's Woodshop Projects gallery during the month of October, 2018. Born of a desire to collaborate without restraint, this artwork was a semi-improvised orgy of material and shared influence, forming around a love for the surreal setwork of the Jim Henson Company in the 1980s. Specifically referencing Fraggle Rock, Sidebottom focused on the multi-layered class-based reality of that world, as manifested through the lens of Boober's free wheeling alter ego, Sidebottom. Sidebottom (the installation) was a cultural construction, building its own mythology as it went. The exhibition culminated in a closing reception, the "Dont'zer Equinox," that consisted of a series of performative actions with an emphasis on sound and destructive visual transformations to the environment.
Echoes of this installation existed for quite a while after the work was removed, though the building as since been renovated and the space no longer exists.

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