What the Audience Brings:
A picture of themselves, their favorite line from a poem or song
Project:
We intend to make spiral of poles. We will tie string from pole to pole, creating the form of a shell like labyrinth in string. We will then clip pieces of fabric in a line along the ropes, creating an airy and light façade to the garden.
Audience Involvement:
The premise of the project is that the labyrinth starts out as translucent, white, light, airy, and blank. Audience members will write words, letters, or thoughts on the fabric and form sentences and interweaving narratives. Audience members would also be invited to include pictures, clippings – whatever they feel compelled to add to the labyrinth. By the end of the festival, the recently pristine shell will be filled with the voices and hands of the people who briefly inhabited it.
Materials:
1. Poles. Metal, or Wood
2. Rope
3. Clothespins
4. White Fabric
5. Scissors
6. Markers
7. Tools
6 comments:
I think this is great
I think the idea of this is really cool, however I do not know anybody who brings photos of themselves to Bonnaroo. Were you going to have a polaroid handy or something? I'm just curious as to how you'd be able to get all the pictures.
That aside, I love the way the structure spirals, and I think it will end up looking really neat once all of the blank pages are filled with people's words and scribbles.
poles = fake powers lines
Or maybe the poles are letters... or numbers... or faces.
For me, there needs to be some clue in the structure that tells the audience what this clothesline is for. Is it a face made up of many faces? Or a word made up of many words? Or a phone number, made up of many phone numbers? This project will inevitably become a message board/graffiti receptacle, so let's try to craft the outcome with the structure we provide.
The first image was taken at PS1 in Queens yesterday (5/24/07). I don't know the artists/architects, but would give them credit if I could. I just included the photo becuase we were talking about using telephone poles as permanent infrastructure for our projects and this is a fairly simple and promising design.
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