Thursday, January 7, 2010

Ducks (as found)


A project by: Ryan Connolly

Examining installations as a performative object, we examined William Forsythe’s dance One Flat Thing, Reproduced. In this dance, Forsythe inserts a grid of tables to establish a new, unfamiliar datum for which the dancers engage. At Knowlton Hall, the building is ruled by datums, with constantly intersecting ramps and floor … read moreplains. It’s materiality is known: concrete, glass, and steel. Our installation challenged both of these properties by establishing a new datum line and a new, unfamiliar and unidentifiable materiality: rubber ducks. http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/ducks-as-found/2754/

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