Using a combination of the round-the-clock format (each person contributes for a set period of time – in our case, minutes!) on a series of projects and using prompts from Eno/Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, we ended up with an unusual collection of pieces. What was useful about this experiment was it forced you to start without [...]
Sculpture
One says ‘I am’ this, that, or the other, and the words scarcely uttered one ceases to be that thing
One says ‘I am’ this, that, or the other, and the words scarcely uttered one ceases to be that thing
Laura Buckley’s walk-in kaleidescope
I managed to persuade a fellow visitor to pose his silhouette between the projected films and the screen of Laura Buckley‘s ‘Fata Morgana‘. He didn’t believe me that we were allowed to get inside it too, so long as we first removed our shoes. It was amazing; I could have stayed in there for hours [...]
Adaptive Architecture
Reactive (to light, touch, movement..) canopies created by students at the AA D_lab workshop, shown at the Kinetica Art Fair 2012
plaster and rubber casts of garlic bulbs
Plaster casts of garlic bulb and cloves. Also cast them in (hot) rubber which made for weird aromas as the Vinamold is already vanilla- or almond-scented and the garlic started to cook with the heat!. Made a two-part sand mould for casting related bulb forms into bronze but it exploded at the foundry. :(
Sculpture: 2D to 3D and back again
Or, any excuse to get the glue gun & spraypaints out :). Was interested in taking something flat, constructing with it, and reverting it back to flat again. Very much process based. (I am sensing a theme here).