The Head: Cardboard Catwalk Project: PROCESS

A collective project to create two cardboard wearables. The remit was to base the figures on two artists - one pre-1950s and one post 1950s. Our group based their two figures on Odilon Redon's painting 'Spirit of the Forest' and Laurie Anderson's performance art. The concept involved two contrasting figures and exploring the relationship between the two.

We created a video backdrop and used a secondary projector to project onto the figures on stage. We also edited a music track for the show.

The figures were then presented in a big Cardbard Catwalk show to the rest of the students and invited tutors from the Art Faculty on Thursday 28th October 2010.

PROCESS:

The Head starts with a central cardboard tube.


Building the supporting structure:


Then applying papier-mache cardboard to create the external surface:


The Laurie Anderson figure with cardboard words and cardboard violin bow. The bow also has fluorescent glo-sticks along the bow-hair edge.


Playing with projecting a movie onto the Head.


Rehearsing and choreographing in the Holden Gallery:




The Head almost completed:

Collective Project Group:
Marie Harris
Lea Moore
Izzy Darbishire
Donna Wood
Katie Whitfield
Roger Bygott

Odilon Redon: 'The Spirit of the Forest' 1880