Pierce Erez-Henderson
is an educator, urbanist, and artist. The goal of his practice is two-part: first, to understand and explain learning and knowing; and second, to examine and contribute to infrastructures—at different social, spatial, and organizational scales—that beget learning and knowing. His work thus spans a wide range of physical, digital, sonic, textual, and computational projects that engage audiences across communities and disciplines. Pierce holds master’s degrees from the London School of Economics and the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He resides in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Mare (2017)
Sculpture as temporary repository to investigate visceral and aesthetic aspects of Baltimore’s infrastructure.

Fourteen nitrile-donned hands tentatively explored an amorphous body. Half a ton of Baltimore’s contentious water supply was suspended within a few pounds of powder. Passing around a bucket of street-grade snow remover, participants showered the soft structure in a rain of rock salt, and the polymer neutralized. Glacial ravines formed and grew, subsuming the mass. Water crept down the hill, re-entering its system.