Making, tangents and edges // Making tangents and edges
After a bit of a delay, and then after a bit of an induction, I’ve at last been able to start on the making! Hurrah!
Still life with visor, nail gun and wood adhesive
I’ll be using my time at the Margaret Street campus through the AA2A programme to explore a tangent of the Colony project.
The two prototyping sessions I ran last year posed some very interesting questions about the experience of travelling through public space carrying landscape-reactive objects. Lots of interesting questions. Lots of interesting big questions.
In the absence of a big interesting residency in which to tackle these big interesting questions, I’ve decided to modularise my research and use some little interesting residencies to explore different avenues of research.
I want to feel that I am really exploring possibilities rather than just making the version of Colony that’s already in my head, so some of the things I’ll be investigating are tangents that may lead me away from the things we’ve previously said are the nice things.
This is how we find the edges (hopefully), and the edges are where the interesting things happen (inevitably).
In the previous two incarnations of Colony, the objects carried have been small, light and kind of cuddly. The vibrations in response to the GPS data were only perceptible to the person carrying the object.
What happens if the objects become large and weighty?
What happens if their reactions are audible to those nearby?
What happens if you are moving in a group with others also making noise?
