@krystalchang The FLOWER MACHINE is a participatory installation that will change shape over the course of the festival. It demands a moment of creation by each person, it forms a moment of exchange between strangers, it sows a field of flower markers by which participants may recognize each other. It is transformed in turn: over the course of the festival, the skin of the machine will be papered over by the offered drawings, turning the hidden interior of real flowers into an exterior display of imagined flowers.
Sky Gazing Tower @somepeople_studio The purpose of the “Sky Gazing Tower” is to address issues and challenges that citizens of global cities face everyday, such as social anxiety, stress, and agoraphobia, by creating an installation that provides a personal space for the public to decompress while gazing at the sky. The “Sky Gazing Tower” gives space and time to each individual to just stare at the sky alone, while being surrounded by a hanging translucent pink membrane that diffuses the light and creates a soothing environment. The installation ia a low-cost lightweight structure that can be easily assembled and transported. It consists of a white steel frame and vinyl pink membrane stripes that hang loosely from the top ring, covering the upper part of the body but leaving the legs visible to the public making clear that the tower is occupied. The translucency of the membrane allows a subtle connection with the exterior while at the same time provides a place of retreat.
INSTALLATIONS
Flower Machine
Big Will and Friends @_architectureoffice Designed by Architecture Office, this installation redraws the popular Morris and Co. Wallpaper ‘Thistle,’ designed by John Henry Dearle in the late 19th century, into an inhabitable visual environment, establishing the wallpaper as intersection for various forms of knowledge. Traditionally, walls act as a support for hanging pictures, distinctly separating the structural from the pictorial. The layers of Big Will and Friends produce a visual thickness that melds the thin scrim wall with the painted pattern, blurring the distinction between the pictorial and the material properties of its architectural support. The scrim material produces shifting visual effects as the light changes throughout the day, causing the viewer’s perception to oscillate between material deployed as image, and image deployed as material.
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