Untitled (Conversation)
2015From a series of experimental works exploring 'Model-ness'.
Performance to camera in which my hands are reflected in the glass of a monitor.
The monitor is displaying footage from an interview I made with an Architectural Technology specialist, in which he explained his use of physical models in an area which now primarily relies on digital simulations.
My hands are inexpertly carving a turnip into a dome shape.
Brunelleschi reportedly carved into turnips or wax in order to demonstrate particular complexities of constructions to the craftsmen constructing his designs for the dome in Florence.
- Contexts: Practice-based research
- Artforms: Film & video , Performance
- Tags: model, interview, technology, research, performance, screen, architecture, gesture, communication, knowledge