Installations
Spanish Dancer
Description & Credits
Spanish Dancer pavilion for the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art
Spanish Dancer is a seducer, an exotic creature. Its turbulent dance and deep sounds lure people into the folds of its blood red skin. It draws them into its embrace, wrapping around their bodies, pulling them towards the interior where a sensation awaits. A white pearl reef. Clear crystalline voices and dunes of glowing white particles where the bodies of people can immerse themselves in.
Spanish Dancer is made of curved aluminum tubes, pleated polycarbonate fabric, small white balls filled with micro beads and LED lights. The pleated fabric is translucent and has a rice-paper like texture. Its forms are generated through the natural material behavior, the same way the folds and curves of a Pleats Please Miyake dress would find their form. The construction team was not given elaborate drawings but a simple notations, the lengths of the tubes, the templates of the fabrics and control points in space. The complex form is a result of a simple choreography of materials in space. The seductive mood at the exterior of the pavilion is heightened with red light and deep “organic” base sounds generated by synthetic pulse. The synthetic pulse causes the sound to live, as it was the result of something organic, as opposed to a product of a machine. In the central area of the installation lies a white pool where sounds are suddenly clear, fresh and angelic and lighting bright white daylight. The “pearl reef” is created by covering the floor with 40 cm layer of small soft white balls filled with micro beads and LED lights. People can immerse themselves in this modern day Zen garden in order to rest, play or meditate.
The Spanish Dancer is commissioned from Kivi Sotamaa and Tuuli Sotamaa by the new 21st century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa for its inaugural exhibition. The chief curator is Yuko Hasegawa.
CREDITS
Principal Architects
Kivi Sotamaa & Tuuli Sotamaa
Design Assistant:
Lola Rieger
Sound Design:
Ville Hyvonen
Renderings
Jani Isoranta Zebracolor
Construction, engineering:
Tokyo Studio, Co.Ltd.
Yoichiro, Ozawa/ director
Kenta, Kishi, Installation, coordinator, etc.
Takashi, Fukumura/ installation
Ayano, Mitsui/coodinator, installation, pillows
Daichi, Maekawa/ installation
Takashi, Kinugawa/installtion
Tatsuro, Maeno/ installation
Yumi, Hatayama/ painting, installation
Sachiko, Kusumoto /pillows
Mayumi, Kuroo /pillows
Kaoru, Sakurai
