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    • 2022 crowd installation at NEXT exhibition at the corcoran school of art
    • 2022 LIVE RECORD installation at dupont underground
    • 2021 concurring experiences web design for the corcoran luther brady art gallery
    • 2020 Three Rooms Project
    • 2019 Grab The Beehive, Cut it Down The Middle, Lick the Honey
    • 2019 Regarding The Narrative
  • documentary
    • 2022 Black Wall Street documentary
    • 2021 Adele Kenworthy Bongseonhwa Flowerhands mini-documentary
    • 2021 Sweet Root Village mini-documentary
  • Photojournalism
    • 2020 Continental Correspondance
    • 2020 Portraits of PA
    • 2019 On Paris, In Love
    • 2018 Like It Was A Continuation
    • 2018 We The Philosophers
    • 2016 - 2020 Long Exposures
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The Sea of Crowd 
Installation at ​NEXT Exhibition 2022

"This project takes the medium of a concert and applies principles of exhibition design to create something new – a LIVE RECORD – an immersive and environmental music experience."
Site: Gallery 1, The Corcoran School of Art & Design, Washington DC
Installation Date: April 28 - May 16, 2022
Designer: Nora Neely
Talent: Sophie Lakin
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Gallery 1
20ft x 8ft x 7ft
​MA Exhibition Design 2022
The Corcoran School of Art & Design 
matte white chiffon fabric hung from a suspended curved pipe
projection-mapped video of crowd hands in blue
stage lights with blue and red gel
subwoofer, headphones
THE BIG PICTURE PROJECT:
LIVE RECORD recognizes concerts as a way of communicating, connecting, and creating collective experiences. The project works to establish a new genre including the audience in the act of music-making and the intimacy of live-music. It does this by exploring overlaps in the social roles of performance, illustrating a live-music theory seen from multiple perspectives. It is a concert to walk through, listen to, watch, and perform in. 

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THE "NEXT" INSTALLATION:
The version of LIVE RECORD presented at NEXT 2022 visualized music by Sophie Lakin, "Breathing Underwater". It tested a spectrum of lighting effects describing the experience of being in ‘the crowd’. Visitors’ multiplied shadows became silhouetted by blue, undulating with the music like a collective breath. Handwritten lyrics representing ‘the performer’ created intimate experiences, even for visitors who may be unfamiliar with the music. The experience pulled visitors in and out of individual and collective experiences reminiscent of a concert. It is a performance you are invited to step into. 
THE GOAL: 
To immerse audiences in the feeling of being surrounded by a concert crowd in an intimate, private gallery space

THE PROCESS: 
I designed a curved projection screen to suspend out from the gallery wall with aircraft wire (see design drawings below) 
(TAP THROUGH ABOVE FOR MORE DRAWINGS)
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Testing the chiffon fabric -- chosen for the strong shadows!
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Bent PVC pipe with heat gun
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View of installation from inside the installation 1
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Multiple points of colored light & video projection
An early version of the video that was projected inside the curtain
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  • Design
    • 2022 crowd installation at NEXT exhibition at the corcoran school of art
    • 2022 LIVE RECORD installation at dupont underground
    • 2021 concurring experiences web design for the corcoran luther brady art gallery
    • 2020 Three Rooms Project
    • 2019 Grab The Beehive, Cut it Down The Middle, Lick the Honey
    • 2019 Regarding The Narrative
  • documentary
    • 2022 Black Wall Street documentary
    • 2021 Adele Kenworthy Bongseonhwa Flowerhands mini-documentary
    • 2021 Sweet Root Village mini-documentary
  • Photojournalism
    • 2020 Continental Correspondance
    • 2020 Portraits of PA
    • 2019 On Paris, In Love
    • 2018 Like It Was A Continuation
    • 2018 We The Philosophers
    • 2016 - 2020 Long Exposures
  • Sketches
    • collage
    • Animation
    • composition
    • Street Panorama
    • Outtakes & Excerpts
  • projects
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