{"id":7690,"date":"2017-12-16T04:48:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T04:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=7690"},"modified":"2020-05-06T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T21:04:01","slug":"space-hijack-laundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=7690","title":{"rendered":"Cultural HiJack: Space Hijack\u2014 Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"laundry\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I began this piece thinking a lot about the idea of a home, or homeliness, and the ways in which Heimbold can be unhomely and unsettling. I began trying to take inspiration from images of the home as unsettling, taking a lot of inspiration from horror games, which is where I began to conceptualize a clothesline.<\/p>\n

\"Screen<\/a><\/p>\n

I wanted to create something that felt undeniably like part of the building, but at once felt like it should be hidden, and put it in plain sight. I looked a lot at Kitty Horrorshow\u2019s Anatomy, <\/em>which conceptualizes the house as a body, and wondered how I could create \u201cveins\u201d in Heimbold, personifying the space and imbuing it with life, even if that life was unsettling.<\/p>\n

\"DybTdd\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

At this point in the project, I started to take in some images of Louise Bourgeois and Tracy Emin, and began to consider intimacy and clothing as a medium for homeliness. I settled on the idea of a clothesline, which brought together many of the concepts I was exploring in a way I was quite satisfied with. I also decided to use dryer sheets (hidden in the socks) to make the piece more encompassing.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"BRITAIN-ENTERTAINMENT-ART-AUCTION-EMIN\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The real challenge of this piece began with installation. The placement in the building was important; it needed to be visible and obvious, obstructive but not so obstructive that it was a fire hazard. Tall people needed to be able to walk under it (a factor I overlooked at first, as no one in our class reaches 6 feet). This meant changing my intended install space a couple times, because a ceiling was too low, or because it was a spot that was too out of the way. The physical installation of the piece was also a challenge \u2013 the pulleys I had didn\u2019t quite fit securely with either of the types of hooks I had bought, and I was terrified of my piece falling and hitting someone on the head. I ended up fastening them to the hooks with wire, which gave the line more flexibility, and it didn\u2019t fall.<\/p>\n

I think the piece accomplished what I hoped it would accomplish \u2013 it changed the feeling of the space, and people were surprised by it. There was a sort of cheery relief in the people I spoke to about it; one student who passed by while I was finishing the installation gleefully asked if it was art or if I was avoiding paying the $1.50 for the school dryers. I think the fact that it resembled a familiar clothesline so distinctly, that it was alone in the space, and that the clothes were mostly intimates like socks and underwear worked together to make the project successful.<\/p>\n

I learned a lot working on this piece about how to use the placement and space around a piece to complement and add to it \u2013 my previous piece had far less focus on a physical installation, and I think the way I used space for this piece informed the way I used space for my conference piece and changed how I plan to use space in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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