THE BLUE WALL PROJECT
The Blue Wall Project is a public video installation that explores our sense of time, history and place by converting an ordinary blue construction fence into a live blue screen.
It examines mutable and historic notions of the city, with its constantly shifting landscape, as a physical manifestation of impermanence. The fine line between public and private space is also alluded to.
A site specific video is generated based on the historic memory of the site and plans for the future of the space, creating a new fiction. In this way, the project deals with the temporality of the city landscape as well as our daily interactions with urban fixtures.
THE BLUE WALL PROJECT | Brooklyn, NYC
MOVIEHOUSE
Sep 2011
Sponsored in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and Etxepare, Basque Institute.
In collaboration with MDIM Architecture.
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Original renderings for a building that was never constructed at the location will be mixed with custom text by Mark Hage and used in the context of the video.
Exploring the vein of failed enterprises, The Blue Wall Project make references to footage from Kubrick's "The Shining" that never made it into the final cut but nevertheless found a home in the main title sequence of "Bladerunner".
For this project, music by Jamuel Saxon will provide an audio interpretation of the credit music from both films. Accompanying the live blue screen, the sound will create a bridge between the films, while referencing film language and pop culture with their universal and iconic natures.
Architectural and Plan Renderings: MIDM Arquitecture
Original Text : Mark Hage
Music: Jamuel Saxon
Video Editor: Hector Bragado
Lighting: Paul Clay
Production Assistant: Erin Smith
Sponsored in part by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC) and Etxepare, Basque Institute.
In collaboration with MDIM Architecture
Special thanks to Rami Metal, Councilmembers Steven Levin & Diana Reyna, and Ayton Performance.
THE BLUE WALL PROJECT | Lower East Side, NYC
NEW MUSEUM FESTIVAL OF IDEAS FOR A NEW CITY
May 2011
Co-produced by No Longer Empty & Moviehouse
http://www.nolongerempty.org
The Blue Wall Project consists of one evening, outdoor screening on Suffolk Street extended into a site-specific installation in the exhibition. Using a scaffolding wall as Chroma Key, the screening integrates unsuspecting passers-by into a video, containing both historical images of the site and real-time footage of the building.
In the exhibition space, the artist reconfigures this public work as a multimedia sculptural installation. The modular shape of the sculpture evokes the scaffolding. The video is projected onto the rectilinear edifice from outside, presenting a new fiction of the site based on historic memory, its current situation, and future plans involving the space. Distilling the urban performance into a sculptural object, this work investigates our daily interaction with urban fixtures, negotiating the interstices between architecture and object, interior and exterior, and public and private spheres. Barrio reveals that “space” in the city is a kinetic performance, perpetually vacillating between states of construction, demolition, and reconstruction.
