Flying Room: Testing Rotating Mechanism
August 19th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...
This is moment we’ve been working towards: releasing the supports and seeing how the room hangs and moves. We were delighted to find out that it was surprisingly stiff and moved better than expected.
Flying Room: Installing Rotating Mechanism
August 18th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...
Our assistant JR Uretsky and RWU research assistant Chris Capozzi prepare to install the custom built rotating mechanism, which features 3 plates of quarter inch steel and 16 ball transfer units. It took us about 8 hours to drill the 12 inch and a half holes through it.
The guide wheels are being placed to determine measurements. Whenever possible, we prefer to take measurements off of real materials and objects over trusting theoretical math–too often we forget something when it’s on paper only.
Flying Room: Moving the Gantry
August 14th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...
This is our first day on location. We’re filming at the Wurks, a cross-disciplinary fabrication shop directed by Will Reeves (at left). Before we get started, we need to move the Gantry to the right location. Problem: the gantry motor is missing. Solution: Mr Reeves has a pickup, a long chain and some gantry-pulling driving experience.
Boston Globe Review of What Stands Between Us and the Sun
November 11th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 What Stands Between...
From Cate McQuaid’s review of our show that’s currently on view at AXIOM (through Nov 27).
For a two-minute video [edited to note that the video is actually 4:06 min.], Megan and Murray McMillan’s marvelous installation “What Stands Between Us and the Sun,’’ now up at Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, required a lot of work.
That back story matters, because while “What Stands Between Us and the Sun’’ is hypnotically beautiful — a world unto itself — it also lays bare all the work that went into it….
You can read the whole review here.
Open Studio on Sat. Oct 23
October 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 What Stands Between...
This Saturday, Oct 23, we’re hosting an Open Studio from 10am-6pm. We’ll be showing work from our latest project, What Stands Between Us and the Sun, (which is currently on view at AXIOM Center for New and Experimental Media) and our latest installation, which was recently in Pixilerations v.7.
Come by anytime between 10am-6pm.
Megan and Murray McMillan Studio
320 Lafayette St
Pawtucket, RI 02860 (map)
Parking: orthopedic lot next door
What Stands Between Us and the Sun
October 8th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 What Stands Between...
Join us Friday, October 8th from 6-9pm for the opening reception of our latest project, What Stands Between Us and the Sun. The exhibition will be on view between Friday, October 8th and Saturday, November 27th.
What Stands Between Us and the Sun is a photo, installation, and video project. In a warehouse in Central Falls, Rhode Island, the McMillans built an artificial lake in an invented world where performers alter the lake's structure to fabricate an eclipse of the sun. The work shown at Axiom will be an installation containing video, photography and elements that are made from, and refer to, the set created in Rhode Island.
October 8 – November 27, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, October 8, 6-9pm
Artists Talk: Tuesday, November 9, 7-9pm
Denmark Installation: Final Installation
June 25th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010 What We Loved and Forgot
Overview shot.
View from room entrance.
Photograph.
Back of video room with rear projection.
View of rear projection and back of installation.
The rear projection system, powered by a Mac Mini with a custom aluminum enclosure, etched with project title and edition information.
Back of installation.
The chair is the the director of the museum's meeting room chair, and the initials are etched in the top.
The chair room.
We placed details of the original set inside the newly fabricated rooms, similar to the lilies. Here you can see the original grey wall and hardwood floor. Actually, the floor isn't original to the set, but a piece we got from a 100 year old church floor in Massachusetts.
Here is a detail in the video room with the original green wall from the set inset into the refabricated room, similar to the yellow pieces in the lilies.