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| − | This installation was developed for a one evening event which took place on the | + | This installation was developed for a one evening event which took place on the 11th floor of an abandoned office building. 26 artists where asked to create a small piece of max 3 min. All these pieces were to be shown or performed in consecutive order. The event was organized by [http://www.2m3.be/archives/2m3--w-o-l-k-e/ 2m3] and took place in the beginning of 2014 in Brussels.<br>''So it goes...'' was my contribution to this event. In the main corridor of the space, the original suspended ceiling was modified. Like in many office buildings the ceiling consisted of small strips of metal attached to a suspended framework. Some of the individual strips were removed from the framework and equipped with electromagnets to hold them in place on the ceiling. From a computer the electromagnet on each individual strip could be controlled. Switching off the power would cause a strip to come down. |
The scenario took place at an in between moment at which people were moving from one performance to the other. (Though there was some staging to make sure people would not be harmed.) A couple of individual strips fell with intermittent timing. This to grab peoples attention. This was followed by a collapse of the remaining strips. At which moment the fluorescent corridor lights went out. Immediately followed by a chiming sound and colored light coming from the ceiling. | The scenario took place at an in between moment at which people were moving from one performance to the other. (Though there was some staging to make sure people would not be harmed.) A couple of individual strips fell with intermittent timing. This to grab peoples attention. This was followed by a collapse of the remaining strips. At which moment the fluorescent corridor lights went out. Immediately followed by a chiming sound and colored light coming from the ceiling. | ||
Revision as of 16:24, 26 August 2014
"Well, here we are Mr Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
This installation was developed for a one evening event which took place on the 11th floor of an abandoned office building. 26 artists where asked to create a small piece of max 3 min. All these pieces were to be shown or performed in consecutive order. The event was organized by 2m3 and took place in the beginning of 2014 in Brussels.
So it goes... was my contribution to this event. In the main corridor of the space, the original suspended ceiling was modified. Like in many office buildings the ceiling consisted of small strips of metal attached to a suspended framework. Some of the individual strips were removed from the framework and equipped with electromagnets to hold them in place on the ceiling. From a computer the electromagnet on each individual strip could be controlled. Switching off the power would cause a strip to come down.
The scenario took place at an in between moment at which people were moving from one performance to the other. (Though there was some staging to make sure people would not be harmed.) A couple of individual strips fell with intermittent timing. This to grab peoples attention. This was followed by a collapse of the remaining strips. At which moment the fluorescent corridor lights went out. Immediately followed by a chiming sound and colored light coming from the ceiling.
As this installation is all about living the moment or experiencing the present time, the accompanying quote comes from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5, in which a tralfamadorian explains Billy Pilgrim how to deal with experiencing reality in four dimensions, being able to perceive past, present and future at at any point in time. Some would say that because of modern day technology we are completely scheduled in and not able to get a handle on the present. Time has become a product and we are
- to experience duration, to resist the condition of time as product, ...
"All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it by the moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber."
Documentation
The following is a registration made on the evening of the event. The following is a registration made on the evening of the event.
