In May 2017, Laura Gillmore, MFA 18, gave a four-hour site-specific performance in San Francisco Inn on 9th Street, San Francisco. It was part of the motel show Teenage Dream co-curated by Rosa Tyhurst and Maddie Klett who are both second-year Curatorial Practice students. Gillmore activated the huge toilet treats she made with paper-mache - a lo-fi method she frequently applies - by using them in the most literal way. The artist took a shower, combed her hair, talked to the people in the motel room: like a regular tourist. Good Vibes Only is an exhibition that takes place in both the storefront and the wall case in the Meyer Library. The installation Time2Reflect at the San Francisco Inn, 2017 in the storefront includes a few artifacts from Teenage Dream, but this time the objects are pulled out of context and deactivated utterly. The video, which accompanies the installation, shows excerpts of the performance in the San Francisco Inn. Gillmore’s work is about the absurdity of our consumer society as it inte…