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The 6 Foot Collaboratory is going to MacDowell Colony for the months of July and August. We will split out time: Elizabeth will represent us in July and Caroline will represent us in August. We will be working in Heinz Studio, pictured here.
Monday, March 31, 2008
MacDowell Colony
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Tea Boat Bags
Acknowledging the values embodied in everyday utilitarian objects, we celebrate the poetry of “user as protagonist” and misrecognized function to produce objects that use the language of product design to create narratives of precarious comfort and hopeful fragility rather than heroic sterility. If consumer goods live parasitically off planned obsolescence, our ephemeral objects declare a limited lifespan with the tender reality patched jeans or duct taped car windows.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Friday, December 21, 2007
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Blind Boatbuilders Tea Ritual with Reliable Furniture
We used the platform between us to celebrate an origami tea ritual taken from 16th cen. Dutch shipbuilders going blind, no longer able to build large scale.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Friday, November 16, 2007
Friday, November 2, 2007
Ice Candle: duration of hope
The shortest wish in history: short tests, heading towards the right atmosphere... needing outside footage for juxtaposition
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Friday, October 19, 2007
Walking on Water
Pedestrian traffic is possible around the waters that contain Manhattan. A boat ride from artist Marie Lorenz around November 11-14 will carry our liquid curiosity further. Submerged or emerging candidates are: vertical supports with long lost horizontal planes (aka old docks).
For example, the west side Highway: off West 57th and Amsterdam or the 69th Street Bridge.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Urban Camping
Ice Candle
We are making absurd and/or pathetic objects whose material and formal properties convey moods (precarious comfort, hopeful fragility) that accumulate sensations for a larger narrative film with a script we are currently developing. The project could be classified as Romantic-Conceptual Art.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
SHOW: Lecture!
Notes: We approach Lake Michigan as a material. Information is made urgent with bodily risk: we use ingestion as visceral knowledge, as valuable as written information. The lake goes through our bodies, into Kalamazoo water reclamation facility, to the Kalamazoo River, and back to the Lake. We have been to all of these places and feel as nomadic as a raindrop from the lake. Displacement, Re-collection, etc.
Comments: "These poetic installations are separate from your research." Our response: our work seeks to provoke curiosity. Just as a Wallmart shopper may not consider an object's production, a viewer may not fully investigate the larger life of an installation. We hope all people consider context and history in any situation.
SHOW: call mom
I couldn't think about anything but my mom, and neither could she. So we made an installation for our moms. How much we miss our mothers and they might not even know we talk about them all the time. So we spent the night trying to keep in touch because we need to say I love you, I miss you, I want you to be here with me and I want to hug you.
SHOW: chicken and lake
Monday, July 30, 2007
SHOW: short cuts screened
Sunday, July 29, 2007
SHOW: Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water...
We gathered the lake, contained it with weather (self-contained), and presented a live event: rain, hail, ingestion. The thread visualized the dripping lake segments in a fluid spatial photograph, articulating the entire drip trajectory in space while remaining malleable. The time recycling program has begun...
Saturday, July 28, 2007
THE SHOW: In the Beginning...
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Friday, July 6, 2007
About Us (we added Grant!)
The 6 foot collaboratory is composed of three artists (Caroline Woolard, Elizabeth Tubergen, and Grant Goeman) whose practice balances between visceral spontaneity and analytical composure. Extending the Collaboratory’s research beyond a single space or conversation, we work with public officals and beach-goers alike, using overlooked spaces and making our process and experiments available on this blog. Recent projects involve water filtration, public sculptural rearrangement, spontaneous perspective shifts, and body extensions that connect to or support architecture.
We bring our wheel-barrow furniture (currently in development) with tools and papers everywhere for performances announced by goose-call: our mouths open reservoirs to drink from, dinner parties of clay, a human-hammock, daily readings (our magazine out soon), and air-duct attachments.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Oddity in the Meantime
Dan the accordian man not only plays the accordian, but also windsurfs. Dan spends late windy days at Oval beach. If the wind isn't right, he plays the accordian. If the wind is right, Dan windsurfs. His body is the only connection between his sail and his board--he holds it together with his body. I am jealous that Dan gets to explore the horizon, a space that is wholly imaginary to me, but then again, I am afraid of deep, empty water.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
the Space Between
The 6 Foot Collaboratory moves at unprecedented speeds as ideas are externalized faster, discussed, and made manifest with passionate analysis.
Endless Horizon
The lake seems like an ocean because we can only see 20 miles ahead... this is the asymptote of perception. The untouchable horizon is a site infused with potential, a space for imagination by default.