RESPONSE TO SPACE
Response to Space was a week long workshop with visiting artists Seth Grizzle and Mark Von Rosensteil as a collaboration between the school of art and architecture. As a portion of the workshop, our group of three was interested in pathfinding, and the factor we all shared in this was how we tie our hair up. We set out to record that process, a tactile experience of moving through a space by feel rather than sight. The discrepancies in the way we each put our own hair up became a critical step in exploring how to create sculptural forms in space around the idea of pathfinding. The ideation process started by taking a portion of our collaborative video and tracing the motion of the hair band as it moved through space. This led to some 3D rendering of fluid forms of motion through space that harken back to Umberto Boccioni’s Unique Forms of Continuity in Space.
As a response to the gallery, the entire collaboration reflected architectural space in some manner. This collaboration consisted strictly of the transformation of dimensional 2”x4” lumber. Our three person group facilitated the cutting and construction of over three hundred sticks that were once 2”x4” lumber into the hanging forest of sticks which could be experienced by touch, sight, smell and sound. The form this piece took was established in conjunction with the placement of the other individual group’s work. This encouraged play in the space as occupants passed through this wooden curtain and interacted with the other fragments of construction. The project addressed a common industrial material and allowed a transformation of potentially utilitarian and mundane materials into a playful exploration of space.
