Bridge String Melon | Melis van den Berg

Bridge, String, Melon
watermelon, string, bridge, valley

Site-specific installation: Watermelon suspended on a string from a road bridge near Rethymnon, Crete.
The traffic on the road over the bridge, and the wind blowing through the valley made the string vibrate and sing.

This work was made whilst on the Slade Utopia Residency in Crete.
E75 road bridge and valley, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 2009

Melis graduated from the Slade MFA in 2009. Degree Show website.
For further information and work see http://www.melisvandenberg.com/.

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down | Holly Slingsbury

It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down – performance documentation from Holly Slingsby on Vimeo.

‘It Was Gravity Which Pulled Us Down’ was a performance made especially for Christ Church Spitalfields in 2009. The work juxtaposes live and videoed action. The live performance consisted of gestures of lifting deflated balloons. This was contradicted by the videoed gesture seen with it, of dropping a handful of ash. The naively hopeful act of lifting the balloons – as if they might float again – is in direct disagreement with the melancholy release of the ash.

Holly is a currently completing her MFA in Media, look out for her degree show this summer.