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| Copyright © Ana Rewakowicz All Rights Reserved 2004-09 |
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| Conversaton Bubble 2006 |
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| The “Conversation Bubble (family therapy room)” produced piece at the OMI International Artists Residency in New York State involves an inflatable structure for 5 people. At any given moment in time, 5 participants are breathing the same air while sharing a common space of the inflatable bubble. As their heads are free to move, the rest of their bodies are squeezed between two layers of vinyl. No one is able to leave the unit on his/her own and all 5 people have to agree what to do or when to end the performance. The transparency of the material comments on the private/public dimension of human interaction processes. |
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the “Travelling with my inflatable room” video piece, for a period Of a
month and a half (September/October) I travelled in a van carrying the
inflatable room - "Inside Out"(a rubber latex imprint of my
previous apartment in Montreal) and set it up at different urban (local
parks, underground abandoned basements, private and public backyards,
unoccupied buildings, street corners) and rural (parks, campsites,
abandoned villages, no man’s land) locations across
Canada(Montreal/Vancouver/Montreal) in an attempt to live out of it. In
the world today nothing is far or near. Being abroad no longer means
being away from home. The idea of home and belonging shifts as we move
into the fast development of technologies and globalization. By creating a personal, portable' room, I wanted to connect the ideas of ‘home’ and ‘nomadism’. The latter denies the dream of a homeland, with the result that home, being portable, is available everywhere. This video combines my personal experience with the utopian notions of discovery and pioneering; values upon which the history of North America was built. My goal was to capture the idealistic qualities of travelling with the most unpractical ‘tent’ across Canada in order to reflect, through my personal relation with the collapsible room, on the element of failure. It is the juxtaposition of the everyday and mundane with ‘grandiose’ that I was interested in as means to create significance of these, otherwise insignificant moments. |
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| Dressware - 2003 - Present |
| "Dressware"
was inspired by the legacy of Archigram. They investigated the relation
between cities and new technologies, regarding fun, play and pleasure
as their projects rationale and developed among many other works,
single space, portable units called "Suitaloon" and "Cushicle"(Michael
Webb). Expanding on Archigram’s concept of ‘clothing for living in’, my own project evolves around the idea of clothing as portable architecture in ‘you never know WEAR?’ situations of local and global emergencies. Considering how our lives have become multi-dimensional and multi-demanding, this work attempts to comment on global uncertainties and the relation between technology and everyday life. Dressware brings our individual . Dressware brings our individual needs to the basic, everydayexperience of survival and consists of three prototypes: SleepingBagDress, ParachuteDress and LifesaverDress. |
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| Travelling with my inflatable room (2005) and Inside Out (2001-2005) |
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