SITE NON-SPECIFIC
Installation, Performance and Wearable Objects, 2021
Cotton, Polypill, Copper, Jerusalem stone
Collaboration with Naama Levit
Performer - Æirrinn Ricks
Videography + Editing - Maya Baran
This installation displays an arrangement of objects and shapes, mostly ones of the domestic environment, and free standing forms that were collected in the streets of New York. They are coated in a layer of beige/off-white gypsum and composed together to create an environment, a site within a site. It stands on a platform on the rooftop of BKMW studio, surrounded by vents, boilers, electricity cords and the building’s sides.
The performance is an ongoing repetitive spectacle of movement and interactions around the installation as the performer activates the objects and materials.
We started this project thinking about the intimacy we have with the objects we use every day- garments, key chains, and jewelry. These objects carry on the body and change through time and context. That mode of change is the essence of our project, everything specific and nonspecific at the same time. Fluidity of forms and functions, shapes that imply a utilitarian purpose to suggest occurrences or a ritual. The textile is designed for attachment- a quilt and loops that suggest interchange. The metal pieces are part of the textile and can be detached and attached to each other and the textile itself . Through displacement of materials and reconstruction of functional objects the aim is to question the common design order and the specification of things. The video is suggesting different possibilities of interactions.
This project was made during the Designers in Residence 2021 at EMMA Kreativzentrum Pforzheim, Germany and in collaboration with Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY.
