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MENTAL COCOON
Inhabitant dwellings
workshop with the renowned artist Sophie Guyot at Lighting Guerrilla festival
winning art installation
colaborators: Primož Ažman Ana Marija Kolenc Janez Polda
The workshop was dedicated to the production of simple shelters or housing. These fragile rudimentary buildings are usually incomplete and unstable structures built from normal everyday materials and discarded items. Most are built by hand, and as such can become part of a specific life agenda, which aims to harmonize and co-exist with nature. This begs the question, if such residence can also become an alternative to the urban apartment.
The aim of this one-day workshop is free design of the light housing made from branches and lightweight stretchy synthetic fabric (lycra). During the day, giving the impression of objects, and the wild camp at night due to artificial light begins to live a new life and becomes real lighten sculpture.
At the beginning of the workshop the participants were separated into three smaller groups. Our group was questioning itself what are the possibilities of human dwellings, not just the view of existential living but also the view of mental living. Nowadays when we rush and a lot of things can defocus us, we need a place to take a break from a chaotic world even more. Available materials were branches, lycra, robe and lights.
The form takes its place in the middle of the gallery staircase and it is hanging from the fence of the staircase. The form was designed as a soft and thin round cocoon that separates us from the external. You enter it through a notch on the bottom of the form. When the viewer enters the installation, it addresses his senses with the help of the lights and points him to look up and helps him to stop for a moment, ignore the outside world, become aware of the present, to focus his direction and to look up.
The installation created in the workshops was placed for one night in the gallery at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana, but later they decided to keep it permanently.