Pieces requiring viewer participation.

An attempt was made to transform viewer/consumers into active participants in hopes of spawning community.

Viewers as Participants
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Popsicle" Performance collaboration with SACD graduate students, 2009, 1/4
Photos by Carrie Johnson
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Popsicle", Collaboration with SCAD graduate students, 2009, 2/4
Photos by Carrie Johnson

Pedestrian leading "Popsicle" participants in happening

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Popsicle", 2009, 3/4
Photo by Carrie Johnson

A random pedestrian turned into a choreographer for a twenty minute span and led the group in a series of movements. Each movement took on a different color.
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Popsicle", 2009, 4/4
Photo by Carrie Johnson

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Painted pine cones, wood with Badminton game
"Fly Fishing" experienced through badminton, San Diego, CA
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Painted pine cones, wood with Badminton game

In order to view "Fly Fishing" viewers were asked to experience the sculpture by playing a game of badminton.
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Fly Fishing" experienced through badminton, San Diego, CA
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Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Factory", Haven Arts, Bronx, NYC, 2008

NYC Harlem River Bridge workers participating in "Factory"

Tower installed a faux factory in a gutted factory building in the South Bronx complete with workers.
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Snow Cake", 2010, 1/3

Artist (left) with Hamilton College Student Participants, Clinton, NY

Photos by Joshua McKee

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Snow Cake", 2010, 2/3

Photos by Joshua Mckee
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Snow Cake", 2010, 3/3

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Community's Laundry and Detergent Bottles
"LaunTree", Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
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Community's Laundry and Detergent Bottles
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Community's Laundry and Detergent Bottles
Making "Launtree", Ketchum, ID
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Community's Laundry and Detergent Bottles

The Community delivered laun dry on location and watched the artist transform it into a Laun Tree.

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Community's Laundry and detergent bottles
"LaunTree" Detail
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Community's Laundry and detergent bottles

One week of community laundry, delivered and transformed
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Hibachi", Performance, 1/4

Performed Sculpture
Sponsored by the Sculpture Center
NYC

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Artist, Tricia Harrison, joined Tower as a "Marshmallow" in this performance
"Hibachi", Performance, 2/4
Artist, Tricia Harrison, joined Tower as a "Marshmallow" in this performance

Performed Sculpture
Sponsored by the Sculpture Center
NYC

Note: A week before installation the Sculpture Center forced Tower to remove the lower section of "Hibachi" because they feared it to be a fire hazard.
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Artist, Tricia Harrison, joined Tower as a "Marshmallow" in this performance
"Hibachi", Performance, 3/4
Artist, Tricia Harrison, joined Tower as a "Marshmallow" in this performance

Performed Sculpture
Sponsored by The Sculpture Center, NYC

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Hibachi", Performance, 4/4
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Westward Expansion Inwards", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
curated by Laura Trippi

"Westward expansion Inwards" was installed as a national park of recyclables viewers hiked through complete with park signage and trail markers.

The exhibition was about Tower's experience pioneering the Williamsburg, Brooklyn art frontier in the late 80's and how her life experiences paralleled those of her great, great grandfather, Gaylen Clark, a founding father of Yosemite. In this exhibition, Tower claimed that only American frontier left to explore is one's own genetics and memory.

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Show entrance
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Westward Expansion Inwards", Park Signage

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Cindy Tower's Great, great grandfather, Gaylen Clark, founding member of Yosemite along with John Muir and Olmstead
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants multi
Artist in urban forest under Bruckner Boulevard in New York City
1994
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Interior of grandfather's cabin
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Interior of artists' loft in Brooklyn

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Artist's great, great grandfather, guardian of Yosemite, on rock
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Artist on her roof

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Lumberjack photo
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants Chain-sawed portraits of pioneering Williamsburg artists
Lumberjack Pile
1993
Chain-sawed portraits of pioneering Williamsburg artists

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Lumberjack Detail
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants


Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Family Tree

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Installation Detail
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
View showing Flemish Pile

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Forest Detail
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Family Tree Installation

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Installation, "Westward Expansion Inwards"
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants multi
artist's grandfather in forest
1994
multi

Exhibition revealing prominent role genetics plays in human development

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Westward Expansion Inwards"
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Guest attire for "Pretty Dot Piece" opening at Cleaver Callahan
Clothing was transformed into Western landscapes

Tower requested that guests arrive in polka dotted clothing which she later transformed into western landscapes and hung new works on the gallery walls.

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Custard's Last Stand
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Landscape in Orange

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Cleaver Callahan Gallery, New York City
Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
"Pretty Dot Piece" Installation

Cindy Tower Viewers as Participants
Cleaver Callahan Gallery, New York City