LOAD IN / LOAD OUT is a staging area and stage for the LOT-EK  Theatre for One (T41). An L-shaped billboard displays a one-to-one  environmental drawing for a deployable object that shelters a  one-to-one performative experience. The installation services T41,  a two-person performer and audience environment upcycled from  “roadcase” (musical or technical instrument case components).  The environment is designed for deployment at urban sites, such  as “theater deserts,” to catalyze intimate public performances.  Conceived by theater-set designer Christine Jones and developed in  its architectural form by LOT-EK, T41, is inspired by small one-to one spaces—such as the confessional or the peep show booth—to  explore the intense emotion of live theater through the direct and  intimate one-to-one interaction of actor and audience. 

As a stage, the LOAD IN / LOAD OUT installation documents and  contextualizes T41 while it is deployed in Chicago communities.  The rear side of the L-shaped billboard holds old and new monitors,  cameras obscura upcycled from delivery boxes, and other ephemera  that locates the project within LOT-EK’s body of research and  design, particularly its URBANSCAN inquiry into the critical noticing  and radical repurposing of abundant infrastructural artifacts.