The Performance Arcade

Thursday 24–Sunday 27 February 2011

Taranaki Wharf and Te Papa

10am–11pm

Free entry unless specified below

The Performance Arcade is a line of seven shipping containers, providing a series of presentation spaces for selected performance projects. Built on Wellington’s Taranaki Wharf, this unique event will feature performances and installations by a range of New Zealand artists and designers. A performance and events schedule is programmed over the three days of The Arcade, bringing together live music, short films, performance artworks, and public discussions.

This innovative event is curated by award winning director/designer Sam Trubridge, who will be collaborating with a cohort of Wellington performance artists. The vision for this event is to combine the early fairground with the conventions of contemporary performance art. The events and installations reflect the history of Wellington’s harbour as a shipping port – and the recent change of direction, in which the waterfront has transformed itself into a public playground.

http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/WhatsOn/allevents/Pages/ThePerformanceArcade.aspx

David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, designed by famed Melbourne architects Fender Katsalidis, somehow seems to channel a fictional James Bond-style location! The stylish MONA Ferry takes gallery visitors across the Derwent River – a 40 minute boat ride, and the best way to view the building in all its glory! All photos and captions – Jacque Koutoumas.

http://thedesignfiles.net/

When My Heart Stops Beating by Patrick Hall (Manipulated vinyl records, electric motors, LED and incandescent lights, MP3 players, acrylic sheet, glass, aluminium, two parts. All photos and captions – Jacque Koutoumas.

Model A’la Experiment by Rasmus Svingel, model with movable surfaces as part of architectural study.

Experiment process model from Rasmus Svingel on Vimeo.

lichtscheibe

The "lichtscheibe" is a fascinating little illustration of colour theory: rotate the discs in their primary colours (red, blue and yellow) and combine them with each other to create the secondary colours (purple, orange and green). The suction cup allows you to fix the discs to a window and thus catch and play with the light coming from outside.

http://taet-tat.ch/produkte_detail_en.cfm?ID=190&kat=5

Random Geometry

http://www.namarococo.com/collection.html

wings

Suture Chair

Date: 2005
Description: An extension of the Honeycomb Morphologies/Manifold research project, the Suture Chair project uses a double-layer honeycomb system to provide both strength and flexibility to the chair. The shape of the chair itself is developed through multiple sources. The chair is designed to enable rocking and also multiple seating configurations. The outside boundary of the chair is in the shape of a suture curve, the same curve used to stitch tennis balls and baseballs together. This ring provides a boundary on which a mathematically defined minimal surface known as a Enneper surface spans. Through an iterative process whereby different variables were used within the equation, a design was established which had a desired maximum thickness at the edges and a minimum thickness at the center. Thus, where the honeycomb is the least dense, its cell depth is greatest. Likewise, the center of the chair has the highest density of honeycomb members and thus requires the least amount of structural depth in the cell.

http://matsysdesign.com/category/projects/suture-chair/