LIQUID SPACE
Gulce – Signe
For the “Exploring a Space” project, our initial idea was to include human interaction into the chosen space and the concept we liked the most and inspired by was the boxing or wrestling rings. We liked the idea of the space being open and confined at the same time, so creating a similar version of that space outside gave us the chance to
play with this duality. In the boxing ring case, you’re inside the space and no matter how hard you lean against or run against it you always come back to the same place.
With our project we wanted to change the limits and the movements of the space buy putting 4 people on the edges of our version of the ring. We got a thick string that is 8 meters long that could be seen from far away and we tied it around the waist of the people and asked them to eventually change their position constantly and during the process we took pictures of each different shape of the ring/ space that has now became flexible.
When we started experimenting with the space it was hard for the 4 people to find the right balance and the right rhythm to move comfortably but after a while it went very smoothly and they tried different shapes. The main idea of this work was that we created a space that captures and limits the amounts of space to move but not the shape you can move within.
