Tape-Sculpture Workshop and Exhibit
Leobard and Ingrid will bring material to create tape sculptures. Translucent, glass-like objects, that seem to come out of nowhere. Glowing at night, casting light and guidance for bypassers, their strange expressions, positions, and motivations will keep you puzzled.
Place and Time: see
The workshop will be on one of the first days, so that the Art can be exhibited throughout the festival. We will repeat the workshop if needed and enough material remains.
If you want, you can use your small tape sculpture to decorate the fairy lights that light up the Middle Of Nowhere (
Mo N), or use them to decorate your own theme camp.
Please bring:
- You must bring objects that you want to cast!!! For example a teddy-bear, your own (or a friend's) body, a tool, small sculpture, your favorite pipe, etc. look
here for great inspiration.
- extra scissors
- empty plastic water bottles (should be crystal clear and without much dents) for being cut-up and used to sturdy objects
- a full water bottle for drinking :-)
- optional: a tarp or towel to sit on, and to keep your tape-sculpture from gathering sand
We will bring a little wire and we can recycle plastic bottles to create larger and sturdy structures.
Participants (add your name if you want to participate, we need rough numbers of participants to scale the material budget):
Children
Children are very welcome! Some notes: Children under age 10 may have a hard time making beautiful sculptures on their own. With parental help and the ability to use scissors, children can have fun making tape sculptures or wrapping each other. Children can also participate in group projects. As a
2–3 hour workshop may be boring for children, try to make a very small and cute object with your child (such as a baby doll), but don't do man-sized objects!
LEAVE NO TRACE
If you participate in the workshop and create art, it is your sculpture, and your responsibility to take it home with you from the event! Consider that a man-sized sculpture is fragile and will take up space in your car. Rather make a small but beautiful work than a big thing you can't take home.
Respect and Kudos
All kudos for perfecting this art form go to
Mark Jenkins, I blogged about my own little experiences
here.
Making a small tape sculpture takes about 30 minutes, a full human will take about 4 hours, if you want to have it glowing, add another hour or so for doing the eletrical bits. You can ask questions to leo@gnowsis.com or the nowhere mailinglist.
Workshop Organisation
If you participate, this is not so important for you.... but....
- we need to buy 100 rolls of tape. “Cadena 100” are shops that sell them ( paulvazo / gmail had this tip)
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