We are living through a moment where systems we once took for granted—value, authorship, truth—are being visibly rewritten.
In The Changing Room, Kate Hamilton offers a series of interactive installations that resist closure. Her works behave like unfinished thoughts—fragments that invite interruption, participation, and reinterpretation. Meaning is unstable. Narrative is collective. The viewer becomes responsible.
The opening reception includes a participatory workshop that leans directly into the politics of the present: visitors will design their own currency. At a time when even the symbols on money are subject to control and branding, this gesture asks—who gets to define value? Who signs off on what circulates?
Your handmade bills will become part of a growing installation, accumulating voices, gestures, and alternatives to dominant systems of exchange.
This is not just an exhibition. It’s an invitation to intervene.
Kate Hamilton is an artist based in the Mid-Hudson Valley and New York City. Working across design, sculpture, and costume, she explores the expressive and symbolic dimensions of clothing. Her hats and garments have been collected and sold internationally, while her costume designs have been featured in performances spanning art, dance, opera, and theater in New York, Berlin, and Zurich. Her sculptural work has been exhibited throughout New York and the surrounding region. Hamilton was born with a caul—a rare condition that continues to inform the mystique and sensibility of her practice.
Unison’s programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

