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Installation for Richmond Hill Music Festival
Installation for Richmond Hill Music Festival
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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Installation for Richmond Hill Music Festival
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2015
SIZE
0 sqft - 1000 sqft
BUDGET
$0 - 10K
Every year, on the 21st of June, the Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth organizes a music festival in the streets of Richmond Hill in Port Elizabeth. For one day only the streets are pedestrianized and various bands come to play. Collectif Saga was asked to make an art installation for the event.
The timing was really tight, we only had ten days to design and build the structure so we had to think fast. We decided to use cardboard tubes that we have been collecting for the past few months. 11,000 tubes were cut, sanded, and stitched up together in order to create a gigantic mesh. Once we had that, we erected a 7,5 meters high and 10 meters large scaffolding structure that was be used as a frame to hang the cardboard mesh. This skin was then tensed in order to make it ow and raise at the bottom to reveal what is underneath: a wall of old TVs showing interviews of Joe Slovo’s inhabitants that we shot a few days before. The idea there was to bring an insight of the work we were busy with in Joe Slovo in such an event. In a way, it was for us a opportunity to draw a bridge between two communities that don’t often relate to each other, Richmond Hill and Joe Slovo Township. This mesh can then be seen as a curtain that you have to rise to get a snapshot of an “unknown” place such as Joe Slovo.
At night, the installation revealed its full potential, becoming a wall of light thanks to the various light xtures installed in the structure. The images from Joe Slovo, combined with the surrounding music,generated a whole new dimension within the festival. From far, it can be seen as a graphic composition, and then when you get closer, the faces of Joe Slovo remind you of the existence of this particular community. Even if you don’t know them, they are talking to you, sharing their own experiences, and making you slowly travel in an other area of the city.
This installation was a great challenge for us. In fact, we managed to erect all of this in one night only. When the people from Richmond Hill woke up that Saturday morning they found the structure in place, as if it had just landed there. The next day, everything was gone, the street was empty and the project became a shared memory that we would remember for long.
The timing was really tight, we only had ten days to design and build the structure so we had to think fast. We decided to use cardboard tubes that we have been collecting for the past few months. 11,000 tubes were cut, sanded, and stitched up together in order to create a gigantic mesh. Once we had that, we erected a 7,5 meters high and 10 meters large scaffolding structure that was be used as a frame to hang the cardboard mesh. This skin was then tensed in order to make it ow and raise at the bottom to reveal what is underneath: a wall of old TVs showing interviews of Joe Slovo’s inhabitants that we shot a few days before. The idea there was to bring an insight of the work we were busy with in Joe Slovo in such an event. In a way, it was for us a opportunity to draw a bridge between two communities that don’t often relate to each other, Richmond Hill and Joe Slovo Township. This mesh can then be seen as a curtain that you have to rise to get a snapshot of an “unknown” place such as Joe Slovo.
At night, the installation revealed its full potential, becoming a wall of light thanks to the various light xtures installed in the structure. The images from Joe Slovo, combined with the surrounding music,generated a whole new dimension within the festival. From far, it can be seen as a graphic composition, and then when you get closer, the faces of Joe Slovo remind you of the existence of this particular community. Even if you don’t know them, they are talking to you, sharing their own experiences, and making you slowly travel in an other area of the city.
This installation was a great challenge for us. In fact, we managed to erect all of this in one night only. When the people from Richmond Hill woke up that Saturday morning they found the structure in place, as if it had just landed there. The next day, everything was gone, the street was empty and the project became a shared memory that we would remember for long.
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