Norman Kelley lecture

Thomas Kelley and Carrie Norman founded the Brooklyn- and Chicago-based design collaborative Norman Kelley in 2012. In their League Prize lecture, they describe their aspiration to “elevate the ordinary,” alternating between the conventional and the hysterical. The two present six recent projects: Rubin’s Barrel, a tequila barrel converted into a sculpture with a visual game; N.A.W.T. Balloons, an entry for the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative competition using floating sculpture for clean energy generation; Shape Shape Evolution; Wrong Chairs; wall drawings at the American Academy in Rome that create optical illusion; and the Overlay exhibition.