If you go What: “Another Room” art exhibition Where: BMoCA, 1750 13th St., Boulder When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday to 4 p.m. Sunday More info: Opening reception Thursday night, 6:30-10 p.m.; bmoca.org, adammilner.com

You are cordially invited to join 23-year-old local artist Adam Milner for 72 hours in his bedroom starting Thursday night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

Originally from Denver, Milner graduated this year from the University of Colorado’s BFA program in painting and drawing. He also studied journalism and advertising while attending CU and will be moving back to Denver immediately after his BMoCA exhibition entitled “Another Room” in which the museum will be replacing its gift shop space with Milner’s bedroom.

“Everything is my own,” said Milner. “I want the objects to be personal, used in, have memories with them. It will be my actual bed, my sheets, my pillows, books, furniture, alarm clock… but for the time it’s in the installation, the objects are more ours than mine.”

The free exhibition will be open to the public and patrons are welcome to interact with Milner who will be in attendance, available for discourse and the drinking of tea, which may be on hand. Patrons can also engage in the space itself, perfect for, say, a potential nap should Milner be gone through the course of his regular day while the installation is running.

“To be clear though,” added Milner, “it’s not a replica of my bedroom at home, nor do I want to attempt that. It is a completely new space for us to share. The room changes each time I install it.”

Milner has thrice before exhibited his bedroom installations: once in the hallway of the new Visual Arts Complex at CU — for the building’s grand opening last October — in which Milner lived in the space for a month; once at the Norlin Library on campus last spring; and once at his house where attendees were granted passage into his actual bedroom.

“I’m really interested in personal spaces,” said Milner. “A lot of people are doing these kinds of things, bringing the private to the public realm with publishing writings online, for example. To be an artist, you’re already merging the private and public thoughts, engaging in a public forum through the gallery with your intimate thoughts from your studio. That exchange is what this work is really about, exploring where the private and public can be blurred.”

Noting that he’s less interested in other artists as an influence on his work than the situations in which he finds himself on a quotidian basis, Milner explained that during his VAC installation, the space truly became public: He would leave on occasion to go home for food or the occasional shower, returning to find someone sleeping in his bed, a duo of girls in intense conversation (one crying, he said) and another student who asked to use the space to sleep in due to her having an early morning critique the next day.

“The whole idea of how the installation will develop will be as much determined by the participants as by Adam,” said BMoCA associate curator Petra Sertic, who first experienced Milner’s work through the previous iterations of “Another Room.”

Sertic made sure to point out that the artistic fascination for “the bedroom” harks back to the work of British artist Tracey Emin, whose installation “My Bedroom” — similar to Milner’s — opened at England’s famed Tate Gallery in 1999, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “Bed-In” of the 1960s, and even Vincent Van Gogh’s iconic late 19th century painting “Bedroom in Arles.”

“The unique aspect of what Adam is doing is the visitor interaction, which presents the space between the public and private, to make people aware of how and who we are in both places,” Sertic said.

“Once you meet this young artist and hear his ideas, what he’s trying to explore, it’s really deep,” said BMoCA excutive director David Dadone, who was brought to Milner’s previous bedroom installations by Sertic before bringing the artist to the museum.

“It’s a ‘happening’ with some humor to the piece, but it’s a really huge process that the artist has been investigating for a long time. It’s a really powerful idea to explore the intimate space, something that does not happen in a museum very often.

“It’s also an exploration for us,” said Dadone. “We’re taking this very seriously and want BMoCA to continue being a place of exploration where audiences can be active participants, not just passive viewers.”