Artistic Rendering of How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer.

Artistic rendering of the concept for the camera obscura, black pen on trace paper and photoshopped dancers and art works. The drawing is split in two by a thin wall, a light side on the right where a dancers is jumping, behind her is a sculpture displayed. On the right side of the wall holes show the projections coming through here an audience member have gather three screens showing different aspects of the dancer, while another audience member in the back is bending the projection of the sculpture, thereby altering its perception. Two pens are laying at the edges of the drawing.

How Do We Project

CONSTRUCTION

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.

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

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 from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, photos from the constructions of the camera obscura
Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, photo of the construction of the multi lensed camera obscura
Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, photo of plywood plate with a glass lens mounted for the multi lensed camera obscura
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

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.

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

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

Photo from How Do We Project designed by artist and architect Troels Steenholdt Heiredal in collaboration w Pedro Wainer, the darkroom where Troels developed unique silver gelatin photos combining Heiredal's work in poetry and photograpy

Informal darkroom set up to produce unique silver gelatins, see more here.