Description: Experimental Performance/sound/Installation 5ft x 5ft music box machine assembled using Gypsum Gypframe, old bike parts, burning bin, wood, bolts and light steel box tubing with manikin hand attached. Tent made from wood baton and white linen material. I would enter via the tent, turn the bike pedal which would move the music box which in turn would move the manikin hand back and forth, with charcoal attached this would leave a line on the paper which was secured to the floor.
Notes: I began with an old music box which I disassembled. I continued with producing process sketches of different ideas, for example, a larger music box. I then assembled a larger version made of scrap. With the spin movement of the music machine I attached an egg shaped cog that would rotate the metal box piping, which in turn moved the Marquette hand back and forth to produce drawings. Working with different ideas of access and separation between the action and the drawings produced.
Outcome: Using the material tent as essentially a blindfold for me and the viewer to create mark making was successful. It offered inclusion and interaction also privacy and the ability to sever yourself from the mark making produced by the machine. However the interaction could only accommodate one person to man the machine and one person to collect the drawing produced. Perhaps a more fluid and multiple interaction is required.
