100 Rooms: A Bridge Motel Project

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For over two decades, the Vis-à-Vis Society—Seattle’s scientists of the poetic everyday—have turned data, chance, and human connection into live art. 100 Rooms shows them hard at work behind the front desk of one of Seattle’s most legendary art happenings: a one-night-only takeover of the soon-to-be-demolished Bridge Motel, where guests traded strange and tender “room deposits” for keys and typewritten poems.

The result is a vibrant archive of the city’s wildest night: 100 tiny, gleaming rooms of heartbreak and hilarity, salt and glitter, pancakes and moose calls. These poems—typed on pink postcards, paired with the odd relics strangers left behind—are equal parts absurd, intimate, and unexpectedly moving.

Vis-à-Vis is the longtime collaboration of Sierra Nelson and Rachel Kessler, co-founders of Seattle’s legendary Typing Explosion, here joined by poet and prop-wrangler Anne Bradfield, their indispensable partner in creating 100 Rooms.

Step up to the check-in desk. Hand over whatever you’ve got in your pockets. There’s a key waiting for you.