CONTEMPORIST: Tape Melbourne was specially commissioned by Melbourne’s main civic centre and cultural district Federation Square as a part of their Creative Program focussing on experimental large-scale public art and its social and communal relevance. The full 16 meters stretch of the Fed Square’s Western Terrace is the greatest span traversed by a Tape Installation thus far. The structure had to be constructed with the help of special platforms as it projects from the external walls of the Fed Square’s SBS building at the height of 6 meters above ground. Its more slender and tenuous, distinctly willowy form is dictated by the specifics of the bridged span and setting. Tape Melbourne is the first Tape Installation to be executed outside Europe and below the equator.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Tape Melbourne by Numen/For Use
CONTEMPORIST: Tape Melbourne was specially commissioned by Melbourne’s main civic centre and cultural district Federation Square as a part of their Creative Program focussing on experimental large-scale public art and its social and communal relevance. The full 16 meters stretch of the Fed Square’s Western Terrace is the greatest span traversed by a Tape Installation thus far. The structure had to be constructed with the help of special platforms as it projects from the external walls of the Fed Square’s SBS building at the height of 6 meters above ground. Its more slender and tenuous, distinctly willowy form is dictated by the specifics of the bridged span and setting. Tape Melbourne is the first Tape Installation to be executed outside Europe and below the equator.
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I have so many questions about the structural design of this installation! I can't imagine how a thing made seemingly entirely of tape could support the weight of many humans crawling around within it without falling apart or off of the buildings it tethers to. That being said, I think this is a wildly successful and inspiring installation in several ways. It definitely achieves what it set out to do- to implant an organic, parasitic organism invading a public, manmade space. The fact that it can be interacted with only strengthens the potency of the message, and the fact that it is in a non museum space that anyone can access makes it more successful still.
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