How Do We Project

Audience members holding up individual screens to capture the projections of a musical performance happening within the project How Do We Project designed and built by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration Pedro Wainer — Visual description: A dark scene of multiple audience members holding up individual translucent screens to catch the projections from the performance space. On the wall the lights of the lenses are visible.

2022 // THE CLEMENTE, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC [USA]

Building on my work with room-sized camera obscura’s [MERT, Through Multiple Lenses] this iteration, split the room in half, to create a performance and an audience side. The wall had multiple lenses installed, for the audience to use screens and capture unique experiences of the performance for themselves; the screens enabled them to explore the projection of the performance space, but never see the entire space. This was a collaboration with Pedro Wainer.

The performance side lit by a large window, mixed the view of the city with the performers. Throughout the show musicians, dancers and other artists activated the performance side, along with artworks installed in the space.

Besides this, I set up a darkroom in the back and used the camera to make unique silver gelatin prints, see more about this here.

Plan of the space How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer. the audience side is dark while the performance side is lit by the window and in the back is a darkroom used for photos — Visual description: A plan drawing showing the layout of the space for *How Do We Project*. The drawing shows the light lock, used to enter the darker audience side, and how the large window to the exterior lights the performance side and drives the projections through the multiple lenses, indicated in red cones on the drawing. At the back of the audience space is a darkroom, used to develop unique silver gelatins.

Photo of the interior of the camera obscura from How Do We Project, showing multiple projections simultaneously, the project was designed and built by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal, in collaboration w Pedro Wainer

Video from the Opening, by Pedro Weiner

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer showing the multiple lenses of the camera obscura from the performance and audience side — Visual Description: Two photos staged. Showing the multipel lenes installed on plywood bases on to a black wall. The top photo is from the performance side and the bottom from the audience side, see the plan drawing above.

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, the two photos show the difference between the fabric screen being still and in motion — Visual Description: Two photos on top of each other, of the same framing. They show a projection of the exterior city space and the interior space with the ladder leaning upside down next to the column. In the upper photo the fabric screen is in motion, showing how malleable the city can be.

Photo from How Do We Project performance by Nikhil Shah, showing the audience engaging with the light projections of the camera obscura space as designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, the double photo shows how it's perceived in the space up side down and then right side up, of Earl, Kiatre, performing

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, photo showing Patricia Nicolson during the dance installation with Miriam Parker, with bas performance by Brandon Lopez

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, three photo showing Patricia Nicolson during the dance installation with Miriam Parker, with bas performance by Brandon Lopez

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, photo from the closing show by Nikhil Shah showing the projection of musical instruments on top of the city view

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, a panorama photo of the audience space of the camera obscura

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, the two projections over lap on one screen in the camera obscura

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, A portrait of the two collaborators through the multi lensed camera obscura