Art or flirting with danger?
Both!
This was an exhibit at the Design Museum in London
that drew me in like a moth - it was illuminating.
Michael Cross and Julie Mathias approach a new design project
by “taking an object we know and beginning again”.
Their objective is: “the radical re-evaluation of objects,
rather than a refinement of what they already are.
The question is not how to make them slightly better,
but how they might be entirely something else.”
For this flood lighting installation, Cross and Mathias
plunged dozens of electric light bulbs and coils of
brightly coloured wire under water. The result is an eerie piece that,
by defying the taboos about mixing electricity and water,
encourages us to question our notions of safety
while allowing us to flirt a little with danger.
2 comments:
What they are doing looks pretty cool, but electricity and water have been mixed for a while. Dancing waters in Las vegas, lights for ponds and the like!
That is true.
I think I liked it because it looked so wrong. Light bulbs and extension type cords just sitting in a tank of water.
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