String Action

The Making:

High                                         Entwine

Low                                          Cross

Expand                                     Spacious

Interior                                     Restricting

Exterior                                    Advantage

         We wanted to take advantage of the entire room by pinning and stretching the yarn across the room, repeatedly. This helps create an experience for people with their entire body. Instead of walking around the work, one needs to go through a series of body motions to get across the room. We also took advantage of the pin up wall outside our room. We expanded the experience to the adjacent space outside the room. By doing this, it shows that a work does not have to be limited within a room, it can be augmented. We created a space not only with the physical boundaries (walls) that were already there, but with the strings.

The Moving:

Bending                                    Dancing

Lifting                                      Entrancing 

Ducking                                    Exiting

Avoiding                                   Stretching

Limbo                                       Turning

         Sandback's arts has taught me that when done properly, space can be manipulated. Sandback uses string as his instrument, and although it occupies little to no space it creates an illusion of occupied space. This idea led my group to string yarn across and outside of the room to manipulate one's experience and space. The strings tell people not to touch and as a result, to cross the room and out, one goes through a series of movement such as, stretching, turning, avoiding, bending and lifting.