Body Installations
2017
Given a series of images, students explored the formal system in the chosen image. Students designated a moment from their drawings to become a “module” as a unit measure. The module became the basis of their spatial constructs. By cutting, folding, notching, sliding, slotting, etc, along the instructions from their drawings students created a method or “logic” for constructing their modules.
They added the concepts of context, survey, measurement, proportion, and scale and made a body installation. Context is found in the terrain of a site students should be quite familiar with: their bodies. By surveying their bodies and identifying a methodology for generating a spatial and formal logic from the drawings, they were able to produce a construct that restricts, augments, subverts, decorates, or dramatizes their bodies. The goal was to fabricate a spatial construct that is both intimately linked to its context and provides a performative function.
These body installations made from recyclable or reused materials without using glue.
