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REMOVABLE ROOM
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Removable Room is a mobile artlab series in which projects are activated on location over a defined time frame. For some of the projects we have been able to explore presentation in nontraditional and disused spaces— a shopping centre concourse, a loading dock, a greenhouse— and wherever possible the final performance is broadcast to the net.
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ESTEVAN ART GALLERY : FEBRUARY 6—9, 2007
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| Cheryl Andrist invited us to present a Removable Room project at the Estevan Art Gallery. Shows were hung in the main gallery spaces, so we decided to use a section of the loading dock/storage area for the piece. We made a viewing area from industrial plastic, and set up a performance area inside a rolling scaffold encased in plastic. The project was to incorporate a workshop with local high school students. Frigid weather (-35 degrees!) prevented the students from working with us, so we had the gallery staff and friends collect sounds from a piano that was in the room, and hold objects we found in the storage area for photographs. During the performance Laura manipulated samples from the piano recordings while Ian improvised live video projections using some of the objects. A monitor showed the output of a program that slowly morphed together the photographs of hands holding objects. |
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