During this time of Covid-19, we’ve been conducting most of our activities within our homes. The question of this era: how can we establish a connection to our community, to the outside world, from within the confines of our dwellings? Our Installation “Interface” is a video record of materials and objects from within our house, projected onto fabric-skinned tetrahedral forms located on our front porch.
The triangular fabric surfaces of the installation amplify and fragment the images from within the dwelling. We organize the sequence of objects in a loose chronology that follows our engagements with the spaces of our home throughout the day.
In any period, particularly in the age of pandemic and social distancing, the front porch serves as an interface between the private realm of an individual or family and their community. It is the space of dialogue between the private and the public. For this reason, we are locating our installation, “Interspace”, on our wooden porch in Northern New England.
Our intervention is a structure of five-foot-long wood dowels connected as tetrahedrons with surfaces of stretched nylon fabric, forms reminiscent of kites, solar sails, and geodesic domes. The primary feeling is one of lightness which contrasts with the traditional design of the neo-classical porch. In the placement of this multi-surface installation, our goal is to engage the viewer strolling by, acknowledge their shifting viewpoints as they move through space.
The opportunity to create this installation in Vermont, as part of an international exhibition, is a direct outcome of the pandemic crisis. This year, the Art Prospect Festival, which typically is located in St Petersburg, Russia is now including artists and sites throughout the world. The artworks in this exhibition are presented both in-situ, through a website, and artists are connected through on-line based discussions .
