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0 Artwork Installation/Presentation Guide Antonio Ruiz Environmental Health & Safety Manager (310) 846-2609

1 on campus, Parental Guidance warnings should be H ow can we help you realize your project? posted near exhibited materials or activities, in OTIS thrives on students’ imagination, creativity, consultation with instructors and/or the and resourcefulness as producers of art and design. Environmental Health & Safety Manager. We aim to assist with installation, presentation, and performance needs in a way that assures a When planning, rehearsing, or performing time- or safe and healthy environment for all. Accordingly, body-based works, OTIS reserves the right to limit PLEASE FOLLOW THIS GUIDE and consider all performers’ actions that may present risk of injury, relevant categories listed below when planning and damage, mutilation, or duress upon the body of exhibiting artworks on campus so that we can best the performer, the audience, or other participants. support your vision and help you realize your project. U se of College Facilities for Art Exhibitions H ealth and Safety F acility Use Contracts For students’ protection, all are required to wear Students planning to install and exhibit artwork on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) whenever campus must complete an Exhibition & Facilities using power tools, manually drilling, cutting, Use Contract (available on the OTIS website). For polishing, applying aerosols, or working with contract approval and recommendations please chemicals on campus. Furthermore, any artwork visit or call the Environmental Health & Safety and its presentation may not feature nor include Manager at X2609. Since all members of the OTIS the use of: community including students - must comply with • Hazardous chemicals all Federal, State, and Local Fire, Building, and • Pervasive or noxious odorous materials (use Health & Safety codes when preparing presentations, installations, exhibitions, water-based paints with a VOC concentration performances, film shoots, projects and activities of less than 50 ppm only when painting walls, on campus. The approved Exhibition & Facilities canvases, or projects indoors) • Perishable food items Use Contract should be completed and turned-in at • Prescription or over the counter medications least 48 hours in advance of the planned • Uncontained liquids or pressurized gases installation. • Weapons or objects that resemble weapons Any exhibition, installation, project, or • Unprotected sharp edges or points, such as performance on campus undertaken without an exposed broken glass shards or needles approved Exhibition Contract will be subject to • Live animals or insects removal, unless produced under the • Pathogenic items like blood, body fluids, direction/supervision of OTIS faculty in the course taxidermy, carcasses, body parts, or of assigned or in-class activity, in preparation for a decomposing organic material class or critique. Any installation must be removed • Mechanical or moving parts without adequate from the campus on the day of the class clearance for each moving part’s path of (installations involving specialized wall-mounting, motion, and an emergency electrical shut-off suspension, or electrical connections remain within ten (10) feet. subject to a safety inspection). When in doubt, consult with your instructor and/or the F orm and Content Considerations Environmental Health & Safety Manager. Student installations, presentations, and performances may not exhibit discriminatory It is your responsibility to install and remove your content or harassment of any protected group or installation or exhibit, and to restore the selected sexual status, hate speech, messages intending to space to its original condition by the date and time incite violence, harassment, or discrimination. agreed to in Exhibition & Facilities Use Contract . Where content could be interpreted as offensive

closers, evacuation plan displays, exit signs, P revention of Obstructions smoking restriction signs, and emergency lights is Student artwork shall-not obstruct or block fire prohibited and is a crime. exits, escape pathways, fire-rated corridors, aisles, doors, stairwells, and staircases while in The installations, presentations, and performance development, installation or on display. of student artwork shall-not obstruct or block any life safety device, system, or component. Sound judgement need be taken during development and installation of artwork. Consult F ire Safety with your faculty, shop technicians, or the Environmental Health & Safety Manager when Student artwork shall not utilize burning candles, needing assistance or support in the development incense, flames, or smoke. Mechanical smoke or and installation of your artwork to prevent any fog emitters are prohibited. Portable enclosed obstructions as mentioned above. controlled burner set-ups (i.e. furnaces or smelters) are subject to safety and fire control Student artwork suspended from a ceiling or ceiling assessment. Also, suspended installations must structure must hang at least 80 inches from the have a minimum of 18 inch clearance from any fire ground in areas of foot traffic to maintain a free sprinkler head for fire suppression purposes. path of egress without obstructions. Mounted fixtures cannot project horizontally over walking All flammable materials (such as acetone, benzene, surfaces more than 4 inches (excluding fire-rated toluene, isopropanol, and turpentine) must be corridors). stored inside a rated fireproof cabinet. Only a small amount of flammable material may be ADA Compliance dispensed and kept available for immediate use during classes or work sessions. OTIS College is committed to the full accessibility of our campus, programs and activities to all E lectrical Lines and Fixtures individuals with disabilities. OTIS College will make a good faith effort to provide reasonable Student artwork shall-not be suspended from, accommodation for qualified faculty, staff, visitors, affixed to, prevent normal function of, nor block and students in compliance with Section 504 of the access to any electrical lines or fixtures. rehabilitation Act. All galleries, classrooms/studios, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) rated extension and assembly areas will maintain 36 inch wide cords and power strips shall be used for temporary aisles and 32 inch wide easy entry and exit. use only, and may not be affixed to structures, extended through walls or ceilings, nor run across Student artwork may not be installed in such a way walkways (unless a rigid cord cover is used). that ADA requirements may be compromised in any OTIS facility. Extension cords and power strips shall-not be joined in a “daisy-chain”. All extension cords and power strips will supply power directly from a E mergency Equipment source outlet individually. Any appliances, tools, or Student artwork and other objects may not be electric devices plugged into an outlet cannot suspended from life safety device i.e. “fire sprinkler cumulatively exceed the circuit breaker rating pipes and sprinkler heads”, or any electrical (amperes) on that outlet. conduit, water or sewer pipes. Student artwork may not contain bare wiring, Tampering with any life safety device i.e. fire spliced wires, or any altered electrical devices. extinguishers, fire hydrants on campus or on Works featuring speakers or sound systems must adjacent streets is a felony. Tampering with smoke be used in a manner appropriate to the detectors, fire alarm pull stations, automatic door surrounding area and/or activities. 2

Questions: Contact Antonio Ruiz U se of the Goldsmith Fabrication Yard Environmental Health & Safety Manager at Decomposed granite (DG) is a stable, yet 310 846-2609. permeable substrate that supports installation of large-scale works and allows anchoring to the Note: willful safety and/or code violations may ground for added stability, if needed. Wood or result in Code of Conduct review, per OTIS’ Code of metal stakes may be driven using a hand-sledge; Conduct Policy. holes no wider or deeper than 12” may be excavated. If an approved Facilities Use Contract includes excavation for stabilization purposes, follow these steps to ensure that you can properly restore the area upon removal of your work: • Remove and store the surface layer of DG in a trash bag; this material will be re-used to restore the area. • When digging, place soil in a second trash bag and store for refilling later (do not mix DG with soil, they serve very different functions). • Install work and refill hole around anchors as needed—use DG to restore appearance and ground level while work is installed. • Upon removal of artwork, refill hole with soil and compact well (a tamper is available from the Tool Crib); compact DG on top of compacted soil to fully restore area. U se of General Areas Student artwork may not be installed, presented, or performed 0. in elevators, restrooms, receptionist areas, information desks, or security stations. Posters and announcements may be permitted for posting inside elevator lobbies, and on pre-installed fireproof bulletin boards with the approval of the Office of Student Affairs. See the Artwork Installation/Presentation Location Guide for more information on where you can install/present your work on the Goldsmith campus. 3