Berit 19-12-09

Hi Maik and Jay,

I've just heard it's -15° in Halle. Maik, still alive?


Lots of news Nobelini-wise.
Attached two texts. First is Nobelini overview to explain the 
concept, second is more related to the design outcome.


Dates:
EXHIBITION: 10 and 11 February at Dana Centre (images to add)

LOGISTICS
Set-up will occur early on Wednesday 10th Feb, we can get there as 
early as 6am if we like to give us time for set-up. Take-down will be 
after the Thursday night event. The public is requested to be out of 
the building by 9.30pm - I will find out how much time after that we 
will have to take-down and pack up.

FINAL CRIT will be at the Dana centre on Monday 18th January at 10.30am:
This will give us the opportunity to review the space that your 
installations will occupy and for you to fine-tune your prototypes in 
line with that.
Jay will be there, I am in Amsterdam. Let's try and get a lot by 
then, and have an idea of final set up.



The crit was helpful I think and quite a few changes will happen:

- Jacket: Probably won't happen due to time restrictions. We will 
rather have a collection of textile samples, that could be exhibited 
as series that show the growth of the material into shapes and 
clusters. So far I had used the maze image for printing samples, but 
it seems that it is too complicated and I will search for some 
simpler solutions, still somehow maze related. Carole encouraged me 
to produce 'a collection of weird stuff', and that sounds good to 
me :) Colours will be natural, mostly brown and greys. Although I am 
thinking of incorporating some brighter ones as little colour spots, 
we'll see.
Please find attached images of the samples so far.

- Table: We both love the idea of using a secondhand table, as it 
goes really well with the textiles. In the next mail I'll send some 
images of wooden experiments, using old woods, lasercut and 
screenprint. Not sure if it's of any use, but maybe helps finding the 
aesthetics.

- Film: We are not sure if we still need it. Definitely we don't 
fancy having a big plasma screen. If we need to show the process, we 
can do that as simple stop-motions, showing on little screens or 
photoframes.

Set-up: How to bring the prodcuts together as one installation? For 
example:
- laboratory set-up, with the process of the scientist on one side 
and the designer's on the other side, to show that the samples are 
handed over and the process is divided. (sorry Jay, maybe you can 
explain it a bit better..)
- I was thinking that we could make some little plinths, round shaped 
to indicate a maze, where we place the samples on. they form a circle 
and in the middle of the circle is the table. for the samples we 
could have archive boxes or they could be built into the plinths. 
hum, hard to explain, please see attached sketch.
- maybe use old wooden frames, similar to the ones for butterflies 
and beetles, and show it in Natural History Museum style.
- any other ideas welcome!


Please let me know if you need more or other info.


Maik, if you need cash for materials, please let us know. It takes 
them at least two weeks for transfers.


Hope you are good and enjoy a lovely pre-Christmas snowball fight!

Berit xx