Situation NY

An installation by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY

On the occasion of the launch of the World Wide Storefront / wwstorefront.org

Reflecting on the contemporary conditions emerging between the digital and the physical realms, the collaboration of Winderen and Fornes collapses sound, light and form in an object with intrinsic sensorial behaviors, inviting visitors to question the properties of matter and the built environment surrounding us. The installation is a vibrating sound experiment that aims to transform the architecture into animated sensible form. Conceived as a sound object that absorbs and contrasts the site specificity of the Storefront Gallery with abstract, spatial, formal and acoustic variations and compositions, Situation NY raises questions about context, sensorial readings, estrangement and the uncanny tangentially resonating with contemporary debates around the ontology of objects.

SITUATION NY

by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY

Fabrication by

bengal.fierro

Commissioned by

Storefront for Art and Architecture

With the support of

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

About the artists:

Jana Winderen is an artist educated in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London, and with a background in mathematics, chemistry and fish ecology from the University in Oslo. Jana's work consists of researching hidden depths with the latest technology and her work reveals the complexity and strangeness of the unseen world beneath. Jana is artist-in-residence at the TBA21 Academy and releases her audio-visual works on Touch. In 2011 she won the Golden Nica, Ars Electronica, for Digital Musics & Sound Art. Amongst her activities are immersive multi-channel installations and concerts and has performed all over the world. She currently lives and works in Oslo.

Marc Fornes is an architect founder and principal of the THEVERYMANY a multi-disciplinary studio practicing architecture through systematic research and development into applied Computer Science and Digital Fabrication. His prototypical structures and organic environments are part of the permanent collections such as the Centre Pompidou, the FRAC Centre and the CNAP. Marc is a TED Fellow and was artist in residence at the Atelier Calder. His practice has been awarded New Practices New York by the AIA, an Architectural League Prize, Design Vanguard by Architectural Record and the WAN 21 for 21 Award. He currently lives in New York and is teaching at Princeton and at Harvard GSD.