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| SleepingBagDress Prototype 2004-2005 |
| Ice Dome Project, collaboration with Steve Topping 2004-2005 |
| In Mexico City I took individual appointments with different people to go to their favourite places in the city in order to occupy them in the“SleepingBagDress Prototype”. Inside, I conducted short interviews, collecting personal stories about these places and people's idea of belonging in a language of their choice. The need for a secure, comfortable shelter is one of the basic human requirements and the idea of a portable home brought forward a variety of questions about social relations and different ways in which we relate to each other; be it to our “self”, a neighbour, a family, a community or a foreigner. The Video documentation from these interventions was projected into a large-scale replica of the sleeping bag dress cylinder and was presented in solo exhibitions at Plein Sud gallery in Longueil (2005) and Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke (2006). Viewers were able to enter the inflatable structure, comfortably lie down and remotely select different parts of the 24-minute footage. |
| SleepingBagDress Prototype involves a multipurpose kimono-dress that when inflated changes into a cylindrical container inhabitable by one or two people. It operates on a small computer fan powered by NiMH batteries that are then in return charged by a solar panel incorporated into the dress itself. The SleepingBagDress prototype looks at the portability and self-sustainability of a wearable cell, comfortable both as a dress and as a temporary shelter. SleepingBagDress Prototype has been used in walking performances and public interventions in Mexico City (Mexico), Toulouse (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Tallinn (Estonia) as part of the International Symposium of Electronic Art - ISEA 2004. |
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| A modern-day nomand who moves as she pleases 2005 |
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| Copyright © Ana Rewakowicz All Rights Reserved 2004-09 |
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Dome Project, collaboration with Steve Topping, explored the issues of
temporal architecture and involved the use of natural weather
conditions to create a winter shelter. A parabolic in shape structure
was constructed and used as a form for the build-up of ice. A spray of,
from the low-pressure nozzles inserted into the inflatable shape and
supported from the inside by an infrastructure of flexible tubing,
allowed for a natural formation of ice on the surface. Water pumped
directly from the canal was used for the ice-build-up. When the ice
layer was shaped (overnight) the form was and taken out leaving a
transparent ice-shell behind. This project referenced the ideas of nomadic and hypothetical dwelling with qualities of solitude and isolation rarely experienced in city centres. It took place on the Lachine Canal and was disseminated by Quartier Éphémère. |
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