TUNED CITY: BuckyMedia
performance by Farmers Manual
03.07.08 / Alexander Platz (Berlin)

Una de las muchas cosas que la apretada agenda del Tuned City no me permitió visitar fue esta performance del grupo vienés Farmers Manual, que tuvo lugar en Alexanderplatz dentro de la jornada dedicada al sonido y la comunicación social. Abajo un pequeño video que recoge al incansable Derek Holzer, uno de los organizadores del festival, jugando con el artefacto. (El video es de Randy H Yau).

[concept + info]

Buckymedia is a work conceived by Farmers Manual as 80-sided, 5m diameter “bucky balls”, in reference to the architect and visionary Richard Buckminster Fuller. By moving these structures, the viewers can navigate through different interpretations of real and virtual spaces and time. Metaphorically speaking the big balls represent the globe, the net, and the circular communication of the web. As physical object they are a space within a space, it is an offer of a different type of architecture, one that is circular, expendable and infinite. Their meaning is created in the moment when a viewer is interacting with them – walking into and through them, standing within them, watching or even touching them. The installation is about making oneself available to a continual barrage of meanings and themes, so that one is transformed into a being spread, distributed a different configuration of the self.