About

This website documents the process of creating I'm Trying to Fit Here, which is an immersive movement installation and lived experience created by Riley Samantha Murray and Maya Kristianna that combines Maya's interest in dance film, Riley’s interests in costume design and performance art, and their shared knowledge of dance performance and choreography. It is rooted in conceptual art practices and explores concepts like materialism, repurposing, absurdism, isolation, and home-space, to name a few. Through a site-specific, multidisciplinary dance performance in an immersive sculpture installation and original soundscape, everyday objects and personal possessions, like furniture, jewelry, clothes, windows, dishes, floor tiles, and other recyclable materials are recontextualized to emphasize the absurdity of sentiments and importance that humans attach to material possessions. Riley and Maya created an experience that gives the audience a look inside a non-conventional, reconstructed home of two people with an excess of second-hand items and encourages an audience to navigate small, crowded spaces with agency of their own physical bodies.