Project:
This pod will be focused on making and wearing masks. In the week before the festival begins, pod artists will erect a circle of wide poles to hang masks on, build a large central plywood cubicle with 4 distinct faces, and make as many masks as possible to hang. During the concerts, the pod will become a mask making station.
Audience Participation:
People can make their own masks to wear or for the totem poles, take premade ones, or add to the giant central mask idol.
Materials:
1. Cardboard
2. Paint
3. Yarn
4. Glitter
5. Glue
6. Feathers
7. Fabric
6. Wood and Tools
7. Poles
8. Tables
Notes:
there is an iconic central figure that could be given specific valence (e.g. each face represents a carnal direction or basic element), if we have enough materials we should be able to make plenty an impact, the masks would be hemispherical or flat and cardboard based, probably held on by sewing elastic (maybe that should be added to the materials list), and hung on the poles by... nails? too dangerous? we could get hooks maybe...
6 comments:
Improved over initial idea. What are they, they look like brown bags, how will they be held on. Will they be water proof, I think the value is more in a mass of masks than the masks randomly about the fesitival as I don't think we can reach a volume of them that is large enough to make a festival wide impact. Expound on iconic and sculptural presentations of masks of various sizes at the pod. How about a ten foot diameter mask
may I also suggest feathers for the masks? you can get large bags of multicolored ones really cheap. they can also be used on your giant mask. feathers in mass create a beautiful and touch friendly texture.
and personally, if I saw people with cool masks, I would ask them where they came from.
I love the drawing. Maybe this idea can be merged with the theatre pod. The large iconic masks could be plywood props that have been decorated by the crowd.
I don't know the name of these things, but at theme parks they have those plywood cutouts that you stand behind to have your photo taken...Your head is super-imposed on the head of Mickey Mouse or Tarzan, etc. Maybe our large masks incorporate people's real faces as decoration, and then the small masks are decoration worn by the people. More ideas???
The center masks could be a plywood box 8' x 8' x 8' that is painted and used as a platform to make an additive sculpture. Found materials are attached with screws and a screw gun.
The smaller totems (plywood boxes 1' x 1' x 8') that spread through the pod area can be decorated by festivites in the same manner.
in response to wade's comment (which is a fine idea, by the way), you could paint a tiki/tropical scene, or whatever other scenes you can think of that incorporate mask-wearing events. or, you can just paint a naked body and the mask will be the only censored part.
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