Bureau Spectacular

Outcasts From the Underground


Installation, 2024

Place: Art Omi (Ghent, NY)


Primary Team: Jimenez Lai, Gil Grassmann, Men Yushan


Extended Team: Zane Abu Hamdan, Peipei Wu, Cullen Fu, Bryan Lee, Negin Sabouhi, Davide Gualco


Fabrication and Assembly: Keeler Concrete (Patrick Daly)


Engineering: Nous Engineering (Matthew Melnyk, Mit Gala, Tim Kanu)


Special Thanks: Julia Van Den Hout and the Art Omi Team


Outcasts From the Underground is an outdoor installation at Art Omi, a landscape dotted with many outdoor sculptures.

This project is a stack of industry-standard septic tanks, catch basins, dry wells, basement staircases, frost posts, and other ready-made precast concrete products born to be buried underground. Using the sales catalog from Keeler Precast Concrete, a local company fifteen minutes away, we stacked the objects into an upright monster standing at 30 ft. At Keeler Precast Concrete, most products are built to be buried. Death, waste, seepage, and other matters below ground - the precast parts are the cast of outcast characters we revive back into life.