Stop Motion Sculpture
Pop-up artwork is great, if you get a chance to see it. But what if you don't? Designers in Melbourne have a clever solution:…
Pop-up artwork is great, if you get a chance to see it. But what if you don't? Designers in Melbourne have a clever solution: a temporary public sculpture that lives on as a stop-motion animation. Award-winning studio Eness spent two weeks working with a team of creatives to produce the Möbius installation in the city's Federation Square. They built 21 large triangular shapes and arranged them around the site. These were then repositioned every two minutes. Each different arrangement was captured on film and put together in a stop-motion video, which shows the sculptures appearing to travel in cyclical patterns around the city. Though the presence of the sculptures in the city was temporary, the public art installation has been immortalised in video format. It's interesting to see animation not being restricted to screens, as location-based projects like this bring the process to a physical space. We even explored the idea ourselves at our Animate Everything exhibition, currently showing at our 18 Hewett Street gallery. For the exhibition, we commissioned graffiti artist Insa to create an animated gif based on a series of real-life graffiti pieces on the side of our building. As shared videos and gifs continue to grow in popularity on the web, we look forward to seeing more real-life, public art living on as animated art.
Discussion