Join artists Kelly Cox and Eric Mullis for an evening conversation on their long-standing collaborative practice and residency work. Cox and Mullis met on a high school ceramics field trip in Madison, Wisconsin, and have worked together for decades, producing installations across five states and exhibiting nationally and internationally. Their work explores the dissonance between physical, digital, and psychic space, drawing on the mythologies of architecture, product display, and media spectacle. Through layered symbols and absurd systems, their installations function as puzzles without a single solution—inviting sensation, intuition, and trust rather than resolution. During their residency at MING Studios, the artists are developing and workshopping a new Rube Goldberg–style installation that combines ceramic sculpture, projection mapping, film, and sound. Using the studio’s clean, industrial environment, they are experimenting with staging, sequencing, and re-projection. The talk will focus on collaborative practice, residency experiences, and will build anticipation for the third year of their Treefort curation project, Backrooms. The residency will culminate in the presentation of their work at MING Studios as part of Artfort at Treefort Music Fest 2026. Cox and Mullis are the current residents of MING’s Studio Space, supported by the Boise City Department of Arts & History and the City of Boise.