Endress’ Activist Cart

During the Fall 2025 semester, Professor Edgar Endress assigned his AVT 309: “Art as Social Action” students to create a framework for engaging the larger public into a discourse surrounding a current topic of interest. One of the student groups developed an activist cart for carting around ice blocks that were shaped into the form of ASCI letters. These letters would be assembled onsite in public spaces as a kind of temporarily graffiti to raise a topic that generates discourse in a public space. Since the graffiti is made of ice, it actually melts away, rather than being a permanent defacement on public property.
The student team used the MIX CNC router as well as consulted with MIX staff members to create custom panels for the construction of the cart.
Students in the group include Courtney Parsons, Brendan Curle, and Kaloni Butcher (depicted in the images below)