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Ribbon
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Queens, Queens County, NY, United States
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Other Projects by The Urban Conga
Ribbon
Queens, Queens County, NY, United States
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2021
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Ribbon is designed as a transformative communal platform for people to connect, share, and learn each other’s versions of Long Island City, NY. The work is a part of the LIC (Re)Connects art series that focuses on finding new inclusive ways of reconnecting the Long Island City community back with one another and the city as we begin to be reintroduced back into social environments. The spatial intervention looks at new ways of adapting existing spaces and infrastructure to become platforms for communal interaction and social activity through its open-ended play design. Each component becomes a functional open-ended landmark that adapts to the user to become a place to sit, converse, play, workout, and more. On each kinetic unit are printed love letters to Long Island City written by the community. These love letters are being collected and added over time as they are submitted by the community through both physical and digital surveys throughout the work’s duration within the public space. The love letters submitted range from poems, stories, quotes, and more from various community members and visitors in the city ranging from 2 years old to 80 years old. These love letters inspire an open conversation about what the city means to different people in different parts of their lives. The information taken from the letters and surveys will also be used to generate new work within the LIC community over time.
The flowing movement of the design acts like a piece of ribbon guiding you off your path and into areas you might have not once explored within the city. It playfully disrupts your daily routine while encouraging memorable spontaneous interactions with the surrounding space, the work, and others in new ways. Its playful gesture wraps around framing different moments throughout several pedestrian pathways, communal spaces, bus stops, subway entrances, and bike stations within the Rafferty Triangle and One Court Square area in Long Island City. The spatial interventions become a series of functional landmarks, always changing and responding to the people, the landscape, and the interactions between them. It allows the opportunity for the users to physically engage and manipulate not only the work but the surrounding areas in which the work is placed. The kinetic components on the installation begin to reflect and refract light, changing colors based on the angle at which they are viewed and the way the light is hitting them. They begin to cast color throughout the space, becoming a tool for the user to transform the surrounding context.
The installation was developed in puzzle-like modular forms to allow easy assembly and adaptability into other spaces around the city over time. As the work potentially travels, it will share new love notes and perceptions of the city from different areas and community members. Ribbon becomes a collaborative, communal platform brought to life through the engagement of its users while existing in harmony with the existing surrounding context.
The flowing movement of the design acts like a piece of ribbon guiding you off your path and into areas you might have not once explored within the city. It playfully disrupts your daily routine while encouraging memorable spontaneous interactions with the surrounding space, the work, and others in new ways. Its playful gesture wraps around framing different moments throughout several pedestrian pathways, communal spaces, bus stops, subway entrances, and bike stations within the Rafferty Triangle and One Court Square area in Long Island City. The spatial interventions become a series of functional landmarks, always changing and responding to the people, the landscape, and the interactions between them. It allows the opportunity for the users to physically engage and manipulate not only the work but the surrounding areas in which the work is placed. The kinetic components on the installation begin to reflect and refract light, changing colors based on the angle at which they are viewed and the way the light is hitting them. They begin to cast color throughout the space, becoming a tool for the user to transform the surrounding context.
The installation was developed in puzzle-like modular forms to allow easy assembly and adaptability into other spaces around the city over time. As the work potentially travels, it will share new love notes and perceptions of the city from different areas and community members. Ribbon becomes a collaborative, communal platform brought to life through the engagement of its users while existing in harmony with the existing surrounding context.
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