Relational Tree is a sculpture experiment that will take place during the exhibition opening. Mimicking the packet switching method of computer networks, the sculpture consists of many individual containers. These will be distributed beforehand in public space in Cambridge. If a person sees the object, picks it up, and brings it to the opening of X-Topia Y-Topia at the MIT Visual Arts Program she completes one part of the piece.
The relational sculpture will create a network of people who interact with the piece, by seeing a container, destroying it or bringing it home, or by attending the opening, seeing the exhibition and meeting other agents who contributed to it. Hopefully it will invite people to the opening that would otherwise not attend.