Dylan Greif Designer
Cornell University, 2006
A Nova Vista project. Directors: Dylan Greif and Inna Kleyman. Art Production Team: Joe Boccuzzi, PD Karikas, and Shana Greif. Documentary maker: PD Karikas
– The Red Box Apartment traveled throughout the week from a crowded, grassy, university quad, to the courtyard of a residential building, and to the indoor atrium of an engineering school complex. There was a white door on the red box with a sign that read: “Please knock.” One after another, curious passersby approached the box to be greeted by a stranger—a photographer—who welcomed them to their personal portrait session taken with a Polaroid camera. The inside of the box was a quaint, closet-apartment (see farther down). An old tape-radio played foreign music, gold wallpaper and postcards covered the walls, and tattered clothes hung loosely on a nail. After the pictures were taken, the the subjects were asked to write down a memory on a piece of tape. The Red Box Apartment captured the portraits of over 200 individuals. It was produced as a public art installation, a public gallery space for the photographs, a book, and a "behind the scenes" documentary film.