One of the many installation views of our Paper & Tape installations in the basement of the Western building. I'll repost the statements each group wrote for their pieces below. They totally rocked this project, creating all-encompassing environments. Check it out! You can view the full album on Flickr by clicking on the picture at right.
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“Was ist die Zeit?” February 2010
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Havilah Aos, Nathan Besser, Haley Deffenbaugh, Jamie Ischer, Linley Schmidt
Time asserts itself consistently throughout every nuance of our lives. Not only can we read its influence on our wrinkled bodies and bowlike backs, we read it through measurements we have invented. What we drew with these atypical materials describes the inconsistent skips and blurs of our impatient movements through life. Constructing a physical model of time is nearly as abstract as the topic itself, and we have taken on the challenge of representing time with marks in space. It’s empirical tangibilities are hard to capture, but the process of the moment revealed the inner workings of time better than we could have planned. The tension of gravity in the installation is pulling apart the seems, just as time will inevitibly pull apart our lives. The contributions of material innovation and conceptual forethought will then last only as an imprint on our consciousness.
Paper Tape Petri Cave
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Laura Falkenberg
Emma Kullberg
Devon Larsen
Josh Mercil
As Science was our starting point for this installation, interpretations of this work reference states of growth and organic material. But as a collaborative group, our understanding of this work went far beyond that. Moving through the environment as a cohesive organism, we began to understand how scientists explore the gray area between knowledge and experimentation. As we worked, we began to feel as if we were explorative, artistic scientists ourselves. We saw connections between each other’s ideas and strove for connections within the installation as we worked to bring it to resolution. In the end, we saw a connection between the explorative process of scientists in order to attain knowledge, and the explorative process of artists in order to create meaning, all in an effort to relay that knowledge to the outside world. As you enter our installation, we hope you are overcome with the same sense of exploration and connectedness that this creative process provided for us. Enjoy.