Rationale:
Working with yarn in 2006 was successful for several reasons. It meets all the practical requirements of the project environment – it’s cheap, durable and infinitely pliable. It bonds to itself easily and accumulates quickly, and it’s striking when it does. But while the first attempt at this installation was a great discovery and succeeded in attracting and growing from crowd participation, we all agree it was only the first experiment with something that ultimately had much more potential. It wasn’t finished when we took it down.
Based on our observations the first time through, we want to redesign the project with a more controlled, better curated and even more dramatic result in mind. Last year the entire space just exploded at a certain point, and a lot of the more intricate work we’d done beforehand was swallowed whole in the process. We want to produce more prominent features to establish the space and preserve them throughout. We want to build a bigger, more structurally sound skeleton for the yarn to give the space more of a stable shape. We have new ideas for lighting effects at night.
Arriving this time with a group of working concepts already drawn up and a specific grasp of what we’ll be making we can pick up where we left off and take it miles further.
Working principles for 2007:
The work we do before the festival this year will follow a specific theme to establish the space. Each corner of the plot will include a representation of a different phase in a cycle: conception, civilization, Armageddon and natural reclamation. These focal points won’t be literal renderings as much as a clearly defined conceptual framework governing variation in technique from phase to phase. Each side of the plot between corners and the center will be left for crowd participation to fill the transition between regions.
Brief description of each phase:
• Conception – a narrative representation of in-utero biological growth.
• Civilization – A dense, organized build-up of structural and geometric concepts demonstrating ingenuity in design and architecture.
• Armageddon – Illustration of structural disintegration in the presence of excessive energy through increasingly chaotic and violent technique.
• Reclamation – Organic, floral growth emulating patterns that occur in nature.
Consideration will be given to appropriate color in each phase.
10 comments:
This really represents the kind of ideas and communication of them we are looking for. I look forward to the next sketches that you are preparing for yourselves. Great comment about not wanting to let the detail be engulfed by the abundance of participation. Keep on truckin
i love everything about this idea. you guys are wonderful.
This is foreplay...
love it, but one question- laundry detergent?
Laundry detergent = glow sauce in blacklight
The way I see it, we'll use wire and poles to create lines and 3-D forms, then use the yarn to fill in, build on, and manipulate the wire structures. That way, the pod becomes a giant coloring book for yarn, and it's the concert goers responsibility to help color in the space.
At first, the themes for the corners seemed a little overstated. But your descriptions of the formal aspects of the project are quite nice.
I would encourage you to think of your "corners" as focal points. Hopefully the project will spread beyond the square. Can your narrative adapt?
What I took from this was that we're running the risk of becoming too literal by writing down an inventory of things to arrange in a linear fashion like a storyboard.
Keeping the 4-phases of the cycle in mind, I think we want to use each as a basis to govern and differentiate the technique.
We can treat each corner like a nucleus and spread out from there. Use people's tents for more fixtures.
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