Media Diet: An Immersive Documentary You Walk Through — Now Open at Twenty Summers in Provincetown

Three real Americans' media rooms, physically rebuilt. The content they actually watch, playing on every screen.

PROVINCETOWN, MA — Media Diet, the immersive documentary installation co-created by artists Amar Bakshi and Heidi Boisvert, is now open at Twenty Summers' Stanley in Provincetown through August 2, 2026. Admission is free and open to the public.

Americans watching the same story—immigration, climate, identity, elections—are absorbing fundamentally different versions of it, depending on which screens that surround them. That divide is usually invisible. Media Diet makes it visible and viscerally felt.

The artists documented real people's media rooms, physically rebuilt them inside the gallery, and programmed them with the content those people actually consume. Visitors to the gallery walk between three fully reconstructed rooms from across the political spectrum and watch the same story unfold across three distinct information universes. Each room is a documentary in miniature: real furniture, real objects, and real media drawn from a participant's documented viewing habits.

"We hope that people think about their media diet like they do their food diet," said Bakshi. "It matters what you're eating. It matters what you're consuming. It shapes you."

"I've always wanted to make science more accessible to a broader audience," said Boisvert. "By creating an embodied experience where you have to inhabit space and live in somebody else's world, this is one way of making something very abstract accessible to a wider audience."

After moving through the rooms, visitors enter a shared conversation space designed for reflection and dialogue. Group visits, school visits, and facilitated discussions are welcome.

"Twenty Summers' purpose is inspiring dialogue that creates positive change in the world," said Mark Walsh of Twenty Summers. "We are thrilled that Media Diet is open at our Stanley Gallery in Provincetown and especially thrilled to play a role in enhancing people's understanding of the role our media habits play in shaping our perspective."

Media Diet is presented by Twenty Summers. The installation is designed to travel, and the artists are actively seeking partnerships with museums, universities, libraries, and civic organizations for future runs.

Stanley | 494 Commercial Street, Provincetown MA | March 13 – August 2, 2026 | Open during Twenty Summers gallery hours | Free

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