Chair Transformation Collaboration Project

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If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?

Conceptual, Digital, Sculpture

I am...

A Chair Transformation Collaboration started in the Kosuth's Chair Group at artreview. You are welcome to join.

About my artwork

We invite you to participate in a chair collaboration,
transforming a chair into different states of being
through folding and cutting, and through passing in
and out of two and three dimensions as the chairs pass
through email from artist to artist.

The basic process...

Artist A:

Step 1: Design paper chair constructed by folding and
cutting.

Step 2: Make a diagram of the folds and cuts. Write
folding and cutting instructions.

Step 3: Take photos: front, back, side views.

Step 4: Forward diagram and written instructions to
Artist B by email.

Artist B:

Step 1: Print diagram and instructions.

Step 2: Reconstruct chair from diagram and
instructions.

Step 3: Take photos: front, back, side views.

Step 4: Transform reconstructed chair with new folds
and cuts.

Step 5: Take photos: front, back, side views.

Step 6: Make a diagram of the new folds and cuts.
Write additional folding and cutting instructions.

Step 7: Forward the diagrams and instructions to
Artist C by email.

Artist C:

Step 1: Print diagrams and instructions.

Step 2: Reconstruct chair from diagrams and
instructions.

Step 3: Take photos: front, back, side views.

Step 4: Transform reconstructed chair with new folds
and cuts.

Step 5: Take photos: front, back, side views.

Step 6: Make a diagram of the new folds and cuts.
Write additional folding and cutting instructions.

Step 7: Forward the diagrams and instructions to
Artist D by email.

And so forth, back to the original Artist or until the
instructions and diagrams become too difficult to
follow.

The chairs will change in expected ways through
intentional transformation and in unexpected ways
through the process of translation and human error.
The chairs will eventually reach points in which they
will be too complicated to translate and reconstruct:
the chairs will have reached natural ending places.
These points likely will differ chair to chair.

Check Kosuth's Chair group for more information.

If you would like to participate, comment below or in the Kosuth Chair group.

So far, we have been testing the process with two chairs. Selected diagrams and photos from these tests are shown in the photo box here.

We'll post the photos and diagrams here, and perhaps in the future arrange exhibition(s) of the paper chairs. We are excited to see the evolution of the chairs.

Interests

Chairs, transformation

The centre of the artworld is

nowhere and everywhere

My artreview.com URL:
http://www.artreview.com/profile/ChairTransformationCollaboration
You can use this URL in your email, on your website, or on your facebook profile.