CLOUD
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project authors: Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett (CAN)
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Caitlind Brown & Wayne Garrett (CAN)
Caitlind r.c. Brown & Wayne Garrett work with diverse media and materials ranging from incandescent light bulbs to re-appropriated waste. Exploring themes of public interaction, art in unexpected spaces, re-use of domestic waste, community collaboration and play. The duo has worked together on numerous pre-demolition installations, most notably The House Project and WRECK CITY. Their CLOUD works have been shown in Calgary, Moscow, and Chicago and also visited Prague last October, where the CLOUD became one of the biggest crowd-pullers of the SIGNAL Light Festival. The most recent projects of the Brown & Garrett duo are SOLAR FLARE in Calgary and NEW MOON presented in Lexington, Kentucky. Despite all the new installations, they have not lost all their love to the CLOUD and the CLOUD, after visiting Singapore, is coming back to the Czech Republic to be part of the CZECH THE LIGHT cultural events series.
The piece utilizes thousands of everyday domestic light bulbs and pull strings, re-imagining their potential to create wonder and inspire collaboration. As part of the process of creating the sculpture, the artists collected burnt out incandescent light bulbs from the surrounding community, forging an informal relationship with non-artists, reducing costs, and asking audiences to reconsider household items in an alternative context. During exhibition, viewers interact with CLOUD by initiating impromptu collaborations, working as a collective to turn the entire sculpture on and off. This team effort was already tested in Calgary, Moscow, Chicago and at last year’s Light festival SIGNAL in Prague.