Jieru Ding
[Flyingallery] 2013 Year Three Project 3B, DRS 3
Flyingallery Archive and Display
Wind and Performance
Exhibition and performance
The Flyingallery project bases on the Notting Hill Carnival costume culture and looks for the solution of archive and dissemination for the industry. Costumes are the walls, roofs and staircases of the gallery, which will use recycled Notting Hill Carnival costumes to complete the construction and exhibition pieces. The site is Holland Park, Kensington that will allow this complex has enough space to produce and present. The chosen of location and white fabric exterior could also bring the benefit of audience group expansion. Movement is the soul to the Notting Hill Carnival costumes. Wind could bring the life to displayed pieces. To fly all these ideas, balloons and kites are not only the inspiration for the design but also the bridge to give the interaction between wind and costumes.
Moving galleries carried by kites are travelling the city.
Flyingallery Village
Archive and Display Soft architecture Reference by Do Ho Suh
Carnival costumes start from and continually influenced by the wide range of materials along with the design process. Archive and storage of those have been the problem, which lack of in the Noting Hill Carnival costumes history. Design story starts from the survey of organization of materials and storage of old costumes.
Different scales of decorations in costume design collected from designer Victoria Lee in ELIMU Carnival mas band. Storage of the large pieces of materials in costume design studio.
Notting Hill Canival Archives have been done
2009 Exibition of History
Colin Prescod, Chair of HISTORYtalk opened the Exhibition and referenced Tom Vague’s accompanying booklet – 50 Years of Carnival.3 In his opening remarks, he highlighted the community history backdrop to the emergence and rooting of the Carnival in North Kensington. The Exhibition was supported by the publication, 50 Years of Carnival 1959 – 2009, much of it assembled by volunteer Tom Vague, which was well received and spotting ‘holes’ in the narrative animated some lively discussion around the issue of curating what might be termed a community ‘living archive’.
Recording for the key charactor
Each of the five Carnival Arts Arenas – Mas, Calypso, Steel Band, Static Sound Systems, Mobile Sound Systems – and the various artists that generate the performance and artistry in each Arena can be a valuable resource, through collaborations and joint actions, in extending the impact of Carnival Arts on the National Artscape. This can be done through the creation of a central Production Team that can co-ordinate touring, archive the best costumes for exhibition and produce events to showcase the ‘champs’ of our Carnival Arts.
Edicational archive
PROMOTION OF CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL CULTURE AND ARTS The promotion of Caribbean Carnival arts in the Notting Hill Carnival should be high on the agenda for the future. This could be facilitated by a Carnival education and archive project. We must seek to promote Carnival education in British Schools i.e. masquerade arts, steel band, calypso, soca and the history of Carnival. Pioneering work has already been started by Celia BurgessMacey and Alexander D Great. Carl Gabriel, Mahogany and other mas bands have long experience in this area. There is also Shortnee, Bann Move, Viey La Coup and Dragons Moko Jumbies who do workshops on traditional mas.
Personal Investigation
BUILDING THE CARNIVAL ARTS INSTITUTION After 50 years this is the time to build Carnival institutions. Any Carnival institution must include an Education department, multi media Carnival archive, Carnival museum, exhibition space and performance space. There are many Carnival archives and archivists in London. Many of us, including Sonny Blacks, Alex Pascal and Ruth Adela Tompsett, have already compiled or possess sufficient materials to form the base of any archival collection.
Historical Talk
HISTORYtalk’s broad range of activities include - collecting projects (e g. Carnival oral archive, and Britain at Work 1945 to 1995; reminiscence at home with over-60s, and inter63 generational work with schools; training courses (e.g ‘Before the Westway’, ‘Spanish Memories’, ‘Black Britain - from Roman times to today’), and History talk volunteer- learning courses; local roots ‘walks and talks’; exhibitions and publications based on collected materials. It is a volunteer organisation - which means that it is richly and generously supported by volunteers, who actually do the work. See website - www.historytalk.org
Organizasion
Black Cultural Archives to explore Black British identity between 1950 and 1990, through the purchasing of photographic materials, oral history and the programming of events across all age groups and an exhibition. Michael La Rose was born in Trinidad and grew up in Britain. He is a consultant, researcher, author and lecturer on Carnival history and culture. He also writes on popular culture of the African Diaspora. He currently chairs the black archive and charity the George Padmore Institute (GPI).
Arrangement of the space and ‘spatial furniture’ to rule the organization The Sight of Trauma: Loss, Memory, and Rachel Whiteread’s Reversals Analisa Violich Goodin:
“Rather than invoke a process of re-membrance, images of loss may only offer ‘membrance:’ a singular static image that is not savvy to a continued remaking, reconsidering, and reforming that is the flux of memory itself. This delay between the visual form and its referent is the blind spot of an absence made visible.”
Mas band studio during the producing process.
Combine archive with the exhibition: elements of the costumes consist as fabric walls. Rooms for recycled headpieces, hand pieces, chest pieces, belts, wings and etc. could help Notting Hill Carnival to build the archive of wide range of design as well as a gallery. Background is the reference from Foster & Partners.
Wind and Performance Reference: Exercise One_Kite Assembly
Notting Hill Carnival costumes are done by elements in different rooms. The scale of the room could also limit the design and studios are out of use in the non-carnival season, which interviewed from carnival costumes designer Victoria Lee.
Materials and connections exploration for kite structure
kite observation diary
Stability and extendibility test
Waterproof test
Test of most effective kite with different materials
Recycled materials from ELIMU CARNIVAL MAS BAND
Foldable kite wall
Test of the extendable kite wall
Exhibition and performance Reference by Situ Studio
Let the wind to play and performance the costumes.
Kite roof hand with costumes.
Kite wall covered with recycled costume fabric.
Flyingallery Village Next page: Flayingallery kept growing during the way to Holland Park...
Wind direction and Context on the Holland park
Site for get in touch with new group of audience A 5.3 hectares sport pitch close to the annual carnival route is an ideal site for recycling and making costumes after the parades. Various outdoor activities in Holland Park could gather sport lovers and families to enjoy the Notting Hill Carnival culture all around year. The visitors from the new Design Museum might interested with the design archive of the carnival costume.
Wide road for walkers, baby carriage, pets and wheelchairs.
Opera Holland Park is a summer open-air opera pavilion, which produces an annual season of opera performances in Holland Park. The pavilion set the historical Holland House as background and there are now 1,000 seats.
Path for bikes separated from the road for walkers.
The new Design Museum
World travelling Flyingallery is a complex of pavilion, which largely done by recycled carnival costumes. It moved around world to build the archive of carnival costume design and to spread carnival culture. Flyingallery has been focused on collecting the recycled costumes after the carnival days. The complex includes studios and galleries to repair, display and redesign recycled carnival costumes. Because of it’s rich collection of worldwide carnival costumes, it also been called as moving archive. Now it’s the time for Flyingallery to get back to its hometown London to welcome the coming Notting Hill Carnival.
Members in Flyingallery Village
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See through Tall Gallery serves as wind test studio and exhibition centre for large pieces of costumes.
Tiny gallery for small pieces such as hand, head and belt pieces.
Extendable gallery to fly and performance king costumes by kites covered on the fabric wall.
Flyingallery arrived in Holland Park after three months preparation
Casting of the “trees� in Holland Park
Notting Hill Carnival band are on their way to the factory corner to donate the costumes at the end of the carnival day.
Audiences from Holland House Pavilion just finished their summer music festival concert and get ready to explore what in the Flyingallery Village.
The factory corner kept producing more members in Flyingallery Village during the day they staying in Holland Park by using recycled costumns from Notting Hill Carnival.
Flyingallery Village 2013
Expect more about the Flyingallery Village in the model box.