Our project engages individual and group conceptions of "home" and "nest" through installation and performance art. We began with Ari's personal inspiration: the Caddisfly. Caddisfly larvae create cocoons from any object in their surrounding area that they are able to scavenge. They are hoarders of sorts, and their shelter is a mish-mash of whatever is local to them.
Even when given flecks of gold and precious stones by the French artist Hubert Duprat the caddisfly larvae did not hesitate when building itself personal cocoon.
We began like the caddisfly larvae, with our immediately surroundings, and we have submerged ourselves in this process of making - it is sometimes as unwinding spools of thread to collect materials. We are creating and will be performing as an exploration of our own individual journey of home. Our process along with our performance during the exhibition will be simple, repetitive, perhaps almost to the point of being meditative, and it will involve us shedding layers of cocoons or nests that we have come together to build as a group and as individuals.
Along with researching insects and their nesting behavior we have also looked at several contemporary artists who create objects or environments that require performance for their activation. One of these artists is Nick Cave. The following photos show a few of his series of soundsuits. They are most effective when in motion as illustrated by the following YouTube video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tXQcGQ95wE&feature=related
Another artist our group has felt particularly inspired by in Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. Neto creates fantastic organic environments that invoke viewers' senses of space, touch and smell. He also has made a variety of sculptural objects that require viewers to participate by embrace the object with their own bodies, whether they are hugging it or being enveloped by its mass.
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