Friday
2009 - present
Cardboard, inflatable mattresses, found materials
2m x 1.5 m x 2m (approx)
Made as part of the Stop. Rewind. Skip. Play residency and exhibition at Hotel Mariakapel in Hoorn, Holland.
"A collaborative exhibition of new media, performance and installation works by three emerging British artists exploring the context of Hoorn and global concepts of technology, nationality and 'the future'”.
Friday was originally a sculpture created from the remnants of the performance piece 'Big Protest'; an oversized and rambling protest placard, which represented repeated human endeavours of establishing grand ideas and meta-narratives. Seeing this process as instinctively human the raft highlights the process of cultural generation as a unique 'will to survive' .
Hoorn is an upper middle class town in Holland where the arts are well funded. The building of the residency was formerly a chapel but is now both an art gallery and an independent film house. This building is a significant motif of culture in Hoorn, which has overtaken it's previuos religious functioning. This original version of Friday mirrors the architectural styles of this building.
The title 'Friday' relates to the day that the predominant found material used in the sculpture (cardboard) gets collected for recycling in Hoorn. A particularly important 'Big Idea' in Hoorn as it is sited in a geographically precarious position and is perhaps vulnerable to rising sea levels in the future.
'Friday' also refers to 'Boy Friday' the fictional errand boy of the shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe famously found comfort in his foreign surroundings by dutifully reconstintuting the culture, objects and ideals of his former bourgeois.
Cardboard, inflatable mattresses, found materials
2m x 1.5 m x 2m (approx)
Made as part of the Stop. Rewind. Skip. Play residency and exhibition at Hotel Mariakapel in Hoorn, Holland.
"A collaborative exhibition of new media, performance and installation works by three emerging British artists exploring the context of Hoorn and global concepts of technology, nationality and 'the future'”.
Friday was originally a sculpture created from the remnants of the performance piece 'Big Protest'; an oversized and rambling protest placard, which represented repeated human endeavours of establishing grand ideas and meta-narratives. Seeing this process as instinctively human the raft highlights the process of cultural generation as a unique 'will to survive' .
Hoorn is an upper middle class town in Holland where the arts are well funded. The building of the residency was formerly a chapel but is now both an art gallery and an independent film house. This building is a significant motif of culture in Hoorn, which has overtaken it's previuos religious functioning. This original version of Friday mirrors the architectural styles of this building.
The title 'Friday' relates to the day that the predominant found material used in the sculpture (cardboard) gets collected for recycling in Hoorn. A particularly important 'Big Idea' in Hoorn as it is sited in a geographically precarious position and is perhaps vulnerable to rising sea levels in the future.
'Friday' also refers to 'Boy Friday' the fictional errand boy of the shipwrecked Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe famously found comfort in his foreign surroundings by dutifully reconstintuting the culture, objects and ideals of his former bourgeois.
