Wednesday, April 14, 2010

working plans [bench]

Below is a rough illustration for the upcoming work I will be setting up in Vermont for my graduate exhibition. The plans include an audio track which will run on a loop through an installed outdoor speaker. The bench is a pre-existing public structure outside of the Wood Gallery.


Below is a very rough version of my audio track. I plan to re-record the train noise as well as the crowded room noise for another version. Click play to hear the work in progress.



Throughout the planning process, many ideas have come and gone. Here is one of my favorite mistakes. It is a gaudy interactive intrusion to a public space - obnoxious yes... but changes public space into spectacle, with complications. Difficult to see from the crude illustration, the bench is upholstered with soft red velvet in the sculptural manner of a large peony - petal like. Underneath the bench are installed bird barbs.

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