Giant Place Detail

Short Video & Review by Tribeca Tribune

2008-05-24T10:56:00.000-07:00

Reflections and commentary

2008-05-18T12:56:00.000-07:00

For participants in Giant Place Detail
Describe your experience of performing Giant Place Detail.
Is there anything that stands out for you in your experience of this project?
Bob'sPictures

Installation Open

2008-05-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

Hundreds of visitors to the Winter Garden are listening to the sounds and watching video images of everyday, as they stand on the balcony looking out at the World Trade Center Site.
Photos of installation

Photos of Performance

2008-05-12T09:04:00.000-07:00

An amazing and focused performance of movement and sound.
Photos of performance
Photos of process
Photos by Janet's husband
Photos by Tin Tay

Tonight

2008-05-08T08:32:00.000-07:00

Tonight we perform for the public, which we have been doing less formally throughout our time here. I'm amazed at how focused the performers have become. There's a lot of power in live performance: an event that marks a moment in time and place. 8:30 pm thursday, May 8 2008

Details, Diverse

2008-04-27T09:16:00.001-07:00

To build this work, this portrait of a place, we use the frame of details: the 6pm guffaws of May outdoor happy hour recorded next to a dish depository; the single Spanish sentence ringing through the empty Winter Garden at 12 midnight; the constant swing 3 o'clock Starbucks door; the key that shuts down the escalators at midnight; the 100 people sitting at 1pm and the 100 people moving at 5pm; the few people with nowhere to go and the thousands who are going across the Hudson or somewhere else fast.

By bringing light to details, everyday movement image and sound, a viewpoint of a place is built. This viewpoint forms a dialog with peoples' perception of this modern urban office complex, a complex which is both normal and surrounded by the spectacular and monumental.

Footage from video installation

Clip from rehearsal for performance

Rehearsals in the Winter Garden

2008-04-07T08:55:00.000-07:00

The School of Fish

2008-03-31T11:43:00.000-07:00

A busy public space can be like a school of fish: one follows another and then the whole group turns unexpectedly toward an exit, an entrance, a waiting place...or two people peel off from the group and take their own direction. Lines and circles of movement, ebbing and flowing.

Last week in rehearsal for Giant Place Detail we recreated through interactive movement the flow and flux of a crowd moving through the Winter Garden. One evening, we were turning with and moving through one another and suddenly a woman on a bench jumped up and joined our "school". The video above captures this moment..

An interactive artwork

2008-03-11T14:53:00.000-07:00

Joshua Bisset discusses the project

Interviews in the Winter Garden

This video was taken a year ago and was part of our research in developing Giant Place Detail. Interviews and ambient recording will be part of the video installation and documentary film and inform the process of making the performance.

Michelle about the Winter Garden

Presented by arts>World Financial Center, which is sponsored by American Express, Battery Park City Authority, Brookfield Properties, and Merrill Lynch. An arts>World Financial Center 20th Birthday commission. Equipment generously loaned by Sony