This is a short video by Fischli and Weiss showing how things put together in exactly the right way and communicating with the next object at exactly the right time can cause a chain off effects where one thing can knock onto another for a desired outcome, or for the excitement of watching the process ignite kinetic energy together.
This is a good example of how performance art can be created even without the use of electricity.
I have been looking at different mechanisms and have discovered some of the most effective and optimal mechanisms are the simplest, Not only because they are easy to execute but they are easy to restore if anything goes wrong.
I have chosen to explore this topic because this history of sculpture greatly interests me, the evolution of different media used and the concepts behind. I feel the works of artists, such as Theo Jansen and their concepts are similar in relation to my own. I enjoy the use of materials and contemporary means of creating sculpture with the inclusion of kinetics.
http://www.ted.com/talks/theo_jansen_creates_new_creatures?language=en
Theo Jansen’s Sculpture is very similar visually to my own work. He uses Kinetics and simple materials to create something that comes together and moves elegantly.
I have created an underbelly which shows and represents the plastic inside the stomachs of birds.
I have mirrored the mechanism on the other side to create a symmetrical movement to represent the flapping of a pair of wings. I have worked out the easiest way in which the weight is reduced meaning there is not alot of pressure when the wings are lifted, this was a problem i had been trying to overcome.
