The lifting room is a room that takes 5 full 24 hour cycles in order to move from the underground space to the first and ground floors. This room is risen only during exhibitions and during this time the eastern entrance is inaccessible. The slow rise of the room allows public engagement with the piece of work and creates anticipation for the exhibition. The room's door is unable to be accessed from the basement, instead it is only available to be used during exhibition times from the eastern entrance. This room is a completely blank canvas and the public is tasked to graffiti all of the interior walls of the room. At the end of the exhibition the room is sunk once again and the graffiti is preserved and photographed before being graffiti'd over when the room rises next.
This area of the first floor is an ampitheatre style seating arrangement used for informal student meetings. This meeting room is placed in the centre of the gallery space and can be sunk into the ground in order to create additional space for the gallery in case of exhibition.
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