Kahty Chenoweth’s Personal Space Wear (PSW) are stretchy colorful fabric forms that are worn by one or more viewers. Once referred to as "shared domicilic underwear", they behave a little like architecture, and a little like clothing. The forms are a people-powered vehicle for viewers to be participants and become the art. From inside, PSW offers a colorful bubble of private space, with peepholes for surveying the land and onlookers. From outside, the forms display a dancing bauble with multiple legs. At night they become jewels in the darkness lit by the party inside.
Personal Space Wear” was part of a larger series using the concept of conspicuous "binds" for spontaneous participatory art in a variety of locations, including: the London Underground, a Safari Park in Tanzania, the Canadian Rockies, LACMA in Los Angeles, and Cape Canaveral in Florida.


