SUPER TEMPORARY
A super temporary and super spontaneous glowing installation of lines and volume.
A pair of installations at the entry points for the luminary night party of the 2019 FOOLmoon, this super temporary pop-up existed for only 12 hours — from construction to take-down.
The entire installation, located in the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market pavilions, was conceived and created on site by Synecdoche’s Do Good Work in a super temporary fashion. Reacting to the structural conditions, the pop-up became a design exercise in impromptu creations with a design language of making something out of the ordinary. The installations explored the actions of volume-creation and line projection.
A stretched plastic wrap connects to the existing framework of the market shed to create a pair of portals through a green glow. Made entirely out of biodegradable plastic, the volume structurally supports itself in a suspended parabolic-like form. The portals pass entirely through to create visual site lines. In the enclosed volume floats a web of light and structure to pull back and suspend.
At the other end of the market shed is a lighter frame of string that is highlighted by a linear strip of black light skimming and tracing itself along the web. Again using the structure to define the formal relationship of the woven string, the final outcome frames the entry as it lifts from the column to the extending beams and back around to the other side. As a luminary procession danced through the framework, the black light played off both the installation and the costumes of participants.