Visual description: A partial scale model in wood and cardstock is finished by a 3D line drawing, the model-drawing is of a temporary street furniture.
How Do We Project
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.
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.
Video from the Opening, by Pedro Weiner
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.
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.
