nina katchadourian's maps

{geographic pathologies (1996)}


{hand held subway (1996); coastal merger (1993)}

kristin kee and futures markets

filippo minelli and silence shapes

In a coffee shop and just was asked by a police man if I had called about a stolen car. I saw them first on mathunderwood's tumblr, and then on zoe's blog, these haunting candy colored ghosts in snowy forests. Last night Riley and I worked on the little models of the set installation, and actually these photos illustrate the spooky/cozy dichotomy that I'm going for. We tried rolling hills of cotton candy pink fur, balanced out by spooky wall treatments in tattered and burnt tendrils of netting. Other things too. It was productive. Photos to come!

fragility, gauze, and karla black


Forgetting Isn’t Trying (detail) 2011



selected works from scotland + venice biennale
artist uses polythene, plaster powder, powder paint, thread
article on sculpture, vivid provocations and a mistrust of language

-inside snow globe: i dream of genie or a cricket in their pagoda cage.
-system?
-not look like black box theater

{i dream of genie}

{vincent mauger}

-alternative floor:
-pile of what?
-ground = opposite of what you would think. packing peanuts, real peanuts?! fur? i also had the idea for coal, like the kind used in barbeques. mentioned in the script...
-gauze. gauze on the floor? sheerness, can it be flesh color or the gauze for wrapping wounds? crumpled like karla black's work but all over the floor? its cozy, like a cloud.
-hills made on places on the floor? big question. places where a mass of something is built up into mounds
faux hill with crumpled thing -- something covering the floor like crumpled paper in picture. crumpled paper - in size, appearance but makes sense to the play, what comes up in the script but not too literal?

{karla black}

-cozy capturing but still a capturing -- captured, but snuggly
-this place exists untouched by history, culture, society. a hazy bubble.
-woven/ netting structures on tracks that move. warp and weft, places where it is disintegrating, where actors can stick their hands/bodies through. barriers and non barriers.
-cozy capturing, nets on tracks
-what is spooky but cozy?

{netting at a pool; eva hesse}


{meghan voss}

set design: a coffee shop brainstorm

materials: burlap. sandbags = floor. mountains of them. making little hills in places, whole floor is covered in burlap.
the walls are stretched netting, like gossamer, very light . sort of like the netting that you can buy garlic or onions in. or hairnets. fishing nets. running on tracks. metal posts rising up where everything is stretched from. there is a system at play. like the warp and weft of a weaving. the tension of the stretching of the netting, pulling apart the weaving. the sandbags on the floor are heavy, weighing down the lightness of the stretched gossamer. So the whole space is a dynamic space of lightness and heaviness, its all natural in color. overwhelming sense of stretching and tension. light can hit the webbings at different angles, especially as they move around on the tracks.

more inspirational imagery:

{ernesto neto -- i like his sense of tension / stretching / weight}








{susie macmurray : installation using feathers and then another using hairnets -- sense of lightness , poetry , using materials that could be affected by movement or blowing of fans?}

{philip beesley @ venice biennale, these are actually light conducting fibers, i like the weight and how it actually looks like a fragile forest. maybe i should think about alternative ideas of a forest, how could this forest oppose more typical ideas of a forest}

 
{Sketch III (Neil Hamon photograph, Morrinho Project installation & Marine Hugonnier's Art of Modern Architecture.) -- sandbags could be a great repetitive material that also provides weight and obstacle and also conceptual. plus i like the burlap / woven quality of them; sandbag trenches in wars}


{my own installation at adobe books-- the tension of the pantihose being weighed down by the books, the system with which i attached them; tomas saraceno at venice biennale 2009}

a rainy day made clean in early november : louise bourgeois and other inspirations.

{louise bourgeois}

{vincent mauger}


{jean shin (made from deconstructed leather shoes)}




{elizabeth sonenberg (are these bread growths?)}

magdalena abakanowicz

ideas / inspirations for floor covering installations

The environment is the most important element of the Tontlawald project. I need to come up with something that transforms what is a black-box environment into something opposite. I want to do it in a really concise way, like, one interesting element that is the floor, and one interesting (moving?) element that is 'wall' like or looms up around the floor space. The directors are into it being more along the lines of art installation for a museum / gallery setting than a 'set' for a play, which is perfect for what I'm interested in making. In the image posts from the past few days I have posted my inspirations for the project so far, and I think aside from that little Poiret fantasy, I am mostly focusing on the environment I am creating and the rest will come later. We started brainstorming ideas for the floor element as a way to further transform the black box. Shag carpeting? A carpeted hill ala pipilotti rist? Astro turf? Hairyness? Foam?
{pipilotti rist}

{vincent mauger ; vincent lamouroux}


{urs fischer ; robbie rowlands}


{myeongbeom kim ; matthieu lavanchy (this material is interesting to me, as a floor covering?)}


{ian james ; housing insulation as a material for the floor? -- its conceptual and beautiful as a material itself}

Also, this video has an amazing faux dirt floor.

{ai wei wei's sunflower seed floor}