Described as a ‘spatial interventionist’, Corey McCorkle is an artist and trained architect, working in photography, architectural interventions, sculpture, installation, and film. McCorkle is interested in the utopian ideas of nature and transcendence, developed often as a response to an invitation to intervene in a specific site. In studying and responding to a space, McCorkle’s practice aims to disrupt, mutate, manipulate, or enhance the environment of his interventions. His practice, deeply informed by the history of architecture and design, social sciences and countercultures, seeks to put in tension the human surge for perfection, its liberal nature, and notions of utopia. Through almost imperceptible or minimalistic spatial interventions, McCorkle highlights some of societies’ contradictions and systemic flaws. By referencing specific communitarian projects or natural phenomena, his work reflects on willpower and ways to organize and develop as societies outside the system’s dominant narrative.