cityscapers
Interface Edinburgh was produced by Rangituhia Hollis, Jason McDermott and Athalie Moedjoko. It was the culmination of the two week porosity studio in Edinburgh, and has been exhibited in Edinburgh, London and Sydney.
Interface: Edinburgh
The interface only exists between a body and it's environment.
Come to this place and see that we are outsiders, foreigners in a new land, naïve and blissfully innocent of this place. We seek to make a connection, an understanding, to learn from the city by touch and by feel. By striking, pulling and tearing. Each time we impact, resonate and crash through the layers of a city's resistance, we learn something more of its limit. It is conversation, but not spoken. This information is physical.
In the space of the gallery, the interface folds back on itself. The results of our exploration are projected onto canvas but only when the canvas is activated by touch. Curious onlookers (and the many other outsiders) do not passively observe but become involved in revealing the city's unspoken surprises. Strangers are offered the chance to play the city instrument. We touch, scratch and pound the canvas in the gallery, we hammer and kick and make noise. The interfacing is deemed a success!
It is the same thesis that drives a child's desire to test unseen boundaries‚ we want to know our (?) place and not by mere observation. The interface always reveals itself informed, regardless of environment - it is both body and information in one. We touch, scratch and pound the surfaces, at all times looking for an answer. Our in-situ interface is given over to new form or understanding. The city and gallery converse via the active canvas and the information it holds. We interface with the city in as many ways imaginable. We play the city's instruments, be they playful, curious or sinister.
We attack and wait for response.
Interfacing with the city;
Interface: Edinburgh (2008) from Jason McDermott on Vimeo.
Opening Night
See Also; Edinburgh Porosity