Studio Time

Our residency in Grey Projects at Kim Tian Road is over. It was three intense weeks working with asphalt as chunks of road, as negative-space-filling-existential material, and as a surface material that we encounter with the ground.

work in progress

Grounded

The ground is below me
I am on the ground.

As black as

A collection of road from the road.
Cuts.
Bangladesh workers,
like asphalt,
almost invisible.

They are everywhere building, repairing roads and maintaining green areas, but it seems like no one really take notice of them. They are not eating in the local hawker centers or going by busses or the MRT, but are transported on small Japanese trucks on and off their job sites. Like the road, they are dark and taken for granted, so they become invisible.

Singapore

We are in Singapore.

Asfalt Magazine

PRESS: Asphalt Stripes featured on construction Magazine ASFALT.

Asphalt Rising

For the event of Copenhagen Art Run, we supported the activation of the ground by raising five blocks from the ground.

The constuction of the piece involved thorough anaylsis of space, size and scale in relation to the proportions of the human body. The spacing between the blocks had to be of a particular spacing such that it enables movement between the blocks and at the same time, the size of the blocks had to be larger-than-life because we wanted the presence of form and material to surpass the human body as material; acting like a frame to the movements for a sculptural experience.

The work also consider the directions of the run. At this site, there were oppositing directions of run. By placing the blocks in the middle of the path, it functions as a divider that guided the traffic and flow of movements. Using intervals of posititons, we open up the possiblity for runners to go between the work to consider and increase the awareness of their directions and movements
The result was a gentle social intervention of the runners’ pace and rhythm.

The work lasted for the event and dismounted the next day, approximately 24 hours in public space of Ishøj Strandpark, eDenmark.
The work contained 5 blocks each measuring 244cm tall, 50cm wide and 10 cm thick with a spacing of 81cm between them, using 85-100 knocks ( depending of the flexibility of the ground ) into the ground for the rising of the block above the ground.
450 persons passed it twice within 2 hours, giving a passing rate of 7.5pax /min.

More black matter

the smell of bitumen presses us on
this is a construction in progress for cph art run-
a goodie bag affair, a one day stand
this time we work with paper and liquid asphalt.