THE LONG DROP (in progress) We stand on a ladder, marking a point, high up in the air where it all begins. From this point, the substance for our design flows like lava, brought down by gravity to eventually settle in its new shape.
The long drop is a concrete table cast in a wooden pouring chute shaped like a rollercoaster. From a ladder buckets of fluid concrete are poured down the chute until it sets rock-hard. When the wooden mould is filled, the chute is dismantled leaving a table that is forever married with its pouring channel spiralling up in the air. Big lazy tongues of concrete, drips and spills are frozen in the moment.
The aim of our work is to capture and present the moment things are made. When an object becomes what is from nothing. In our earlier works such as Big Dipper (2007), a machine that dips candle wax chandeliers, the end products served as an artefact of the performance. The drips and nuances of the pieces were informed by the moment they were created, but the object and process, in this case the machine, were separate parts.
The idea for The Long Drop arose when we were looking for a way to capture the actual moment of creation within the object itself. We wanted to create a table that would always be connected to the channel from which it derived.
With the support of Funds BKVB, we are currently researching The Long Drop for 2010.
