Collaborative Project: Invisible & Structure Lines:
As part of the Unit 1 collaborative project, I decided to join the invisible and structure lines group as part the larger Dots & Lines event. I was interested in the ideas of links, layers, things you see and don't see, unseen forces, fate and connections.
The Team:
Patricia Reilly
Jordan Magnee
Emily Minshaw
Amy Nicholson
Group Meetings
Below are a full list of notes and words collected during the first few small group meetings. We discussed our theme, first impressions, ideas and skills.
I liked that this group had a very broad scope and could be interpreted in different ways and that it already had within the name opportunity for contradictions and contrasts.
We agreed on some key themes: An Audience journey, shadows, multiple installations, connections
We explored ideas which would utilise our group skills and interests. We were keen from the beginning to combine made artifacts with digital projection and a live technician/performer.
A group Pinterest page was established to share images as inspiration and clarification of style. This would be used throughout the project to document designs, photographs and reference images. Many early inspirations included shadow play including work by Christian Boltanski, Adam Martinakis, Josef Svoboda, Tim Noble and Sue Webster.
Blog image: Christian Boltanski, Théâtre d'ombres (Theatre of Shadows)
Words of inspiration:
Links, linking, joining
Unique journey
Audience journey
Audience impacting space
Pieces that become a whole
Inter-space rather than interlocking
Language and mapping
Installation
small installation facilitatedLinking the space rather than linking the work
Intermission
Lots of small spaces
Trail
Linking Connections
Create your own story
Exquisite corpse
Humorous
Visual
Lines of vision
Mirrors
Lights
Optical illusion
Breaking a line, walk through
Macabre
Dark and beauty
Shadow play
Playing with perceptions of what is real and not real
Real object combined with projection, film
Analogue and digital
Shadow play
What you see, what you don't, tricks of eye
Structure different things at different angles
Invisible lines - intangible lines, how you perceive time and and lines
Lines of time link parcelled universe
Technology watched
Phone - tracking, lines of communication
Tracking parcels
Map of Harry Potter
Collecting
Step by step to create something, structure and invisible
Text and meaning
Collecting and put together
Journey involved but not pre described
List of instructions to follow
Mapping a journey - Visual based
Please visit the collaborative project page, within the MA research section of my website for a full overview of this project.