Collaborators - Respond To Place + Space

Over the next few days a design gallery is on show place in Waverly, showing professional designers scale models of set designs and live art performances. There are a wide range of interesting models and art projects that have helped me to understand more about live based art projects.




Roma Patel had an interactive stand that showed the live art project that she had worked on. The project looked amazing and was done on a grand scale. I never really knew how popular these live art shows were, but today I learnt that they can be very popular and have some visually amazing sets. Roma was responsible for designing the sets for two site specific live art shows, 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'The Tempest'. The sets looked stunning and Roma explained that the 'Merchant of Venice' lasted around three hours and had and had an audience of more than 200 people, which just showed how popular these shows are.



The set for ‘The Merchant of Venice’ responded to “various histories of the sites and the architecture of Cork City. Some of the spaces were kept the same, whilst others were contained set pieces and video projections to incorporate the story. ‘The Tempest’ similarly used the Victorian features of ‘Fitzgerald’s Park’ to create a spectacular set that consisted of walkways and vertical structures.

This was just one of many interesting ‘site specific’ live art projects that was on show and this has helped increased my understand of live art projects that will help me work on my fact exercise project over the next two weeks.