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
Installation Date: April 28 - May 16, 2022
Designer: Nora Neely
Talent: Sophie Lakin
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.
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.
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.
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)
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)
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