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The Shape of Our Best Intentions: DeCordova 2012 Biennial Installation

February 24th, 2012 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...


The Shape of Our Best Intentions: Installation, DeCordova Museum,  Megan and Murray McMillan, 2011

 


The Shape of Our Best Intentions: Installation, DeCordova Museum,  Megan and Murray McMillan, 2011



The Shape of Our Best Intentions: Installation, DeCordova Museum,  Megan and Murray McMillan, 2011

 


The Shape of Our Best Intentions: Video (Video still), Megan and Murray McMillan, 2011

 

 


The Shape of Our Best Intentions: Photograph, Megan and Murray McMillan, 2011

 

 


The Arnolfini Portrait, Jan van Eyck, 1434

 

The Shape of Our Best Intentions (2011) includes a single-channel video, a site-specific video installation and a series of photographs. This work is loosely inspired by Jan Van Eyck’s “Arnolfini Marriage Portrait” (1434), as a meditation on the institution of contemporary marriage. A real-life married couple fold sheets in a room on a suspended structure, rotating over a reflecting pool of water. The structure is powered by workers. When the structure stops, the couple step out of the room into the water. They walk to the camera and move it to a crane, which pulls back to reveal the structure which was supporting them.

DeCordova Installation Fabrication

February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

We’ve designed a room for the video that will float similar to the installation in the video. First we  installed the stilts–our assistant JR Uretsky named them Stevens because they needed a name and there is nothing wrong with Steven. We then added the bottom perimeter followed by the walls (starting from the entrance hall). The square cut out will be where the projector shines through.

JR Uretsky (inside) and RWU research assistant Chris Capozzi are positioning the hallway ceiling in place.

 

 

We created 9 ceiling supports that JR named Brittany’s. Each of the Brittany’s have last names too, which helped pair them together during transportation.

Walls and ceiling complete–now it’s time to connect it to the museum ceiling.

Each of the boxes hanging from the museum ceiling have four quarter inch rods that are fastened directly to large i-beams above the museum drop ceiling. Our project engineer, Sam Hogg, calculated all weights and limits so all connections are safe.

 

Here is the inside of the room and the projection screen frame. So the video of a floating room will be shown on a projection screen that floats on a wall within a floating room. BTW, we’re using a stretchable rear projection screen so that a bit of light from the projection will illuminate the back wall subtly.

DeCordova Museum Installation Prep

February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

We’re pre-building installation components in our studio in Providence.

 

2012 deCordova Biennial Opens on Saturday, Jan. 21st

January 3rd, 2012 · 2 Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...


The Shape of Our Best Intentions, 2011

We will be debuting our new video installation, The Shape of Our Best Intentions, at the 2012 deCordova Biennial, which runs from January 23 to April 22. There’s no public opening, but there is a Members Preview Day that’s open to guests of the artists — all you have to do is give them our name at the gate. We’ll also be giving an artists’ talk on Saturday, March 10 at 2pm. Here’s a link to the full list of events for the exhibition. Hope to see you at one of them.

2012 deCordova Biennial Jan. 23rd thru Apr.22nd

Artist Discussion: Artistic Collaboration
Antoniadis & Stone, Megan and Murray McMillan
Saturday, March 10, 2 pm at deCordova

The Shape of Our Best Intentions

October 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

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We’re pleased to announce that our current project, The Shape of Our Best Intentions (which was previously referred to under the working title Flying Room) will open as a video installation this January at the 2012 Biennial at the DeCordova Museum in Boston (Lincoln).

Flying Room: Video Shoot

September 11th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

 

 

Flying Room: Video Shoot Tomorrow!

September 9th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

 

Flying Room: Camera Mount

August 24th, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

 

Our lead actors will step out into the water, grab the camera using the two handles, lift it up and out of the tray and place into a similar tray installed on a crane that will move away from the structure, while the structure is spinning.

 

Flying Room: Reflecting Pool Fabrication

August 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

 

 

 

 

 

Flying Room: Light Design

August 21st, 2011 · No Comments · 2011 The Shape of Our Best...

 

 

Director of photography Kieran Delaney and his assistant John create some quick lighting tests.