The 14 extracted elements are taken from Walsh Street Site re-modelled through architectural program SketchUp to insight new arrangements that can be used as citations of site. As the Walsh Street house has this interesting museum/gallery context as well as housing moments of domesticity due to it being a former residency I was interested in seeing the potential of these elements as exhibition displays. For now these sit siteless however I have diagrammed their potentials. These elements are arranged and re-arranged in a multiplicity of ways to show the new ways that they can become something else. They can become support structures that allow for layering of information to support the narrative of the Walsh Street House.
"This thesis argues that display is not only an essential element of interpretation and exhibition, but is intrinsic to artworks themselves, and is part of their coming into being. It shows that contrary to most understandings, display is not something done to already existing and fully defined objects, but is itself a transformative process, albeit one that often remains invisible." Condorelli (2014, p.2)
I quickly modelled part of these iterations in clay to see the potential of how these models could be arranged to support, lean on and be propped by each other. This process assisted me in coming up with the support system below.
Clay Models
Designing a Support System
These 5 diagrams look at how these extractions can be re-arranged to form exhibition displays that reference Walsh Street House. These arrangements can be used as support systems that allow for the layering of image, text, projection, material and object of Walsh Street House. As my work started to develop I realised that 'comfort' within the form of support can start to be a system that allows for information to be layered onto. In a way exhibition displays start to do this as they are platforms for information to be distributed through and props of support to display material and object through support. These elements would be used as methods of assemblage. Assemblage is the collection or gathering of things or people. Assemblage also starts to inform arrangement which is a key technique within my work. From my explorations I was aiming to design the experience through means of material, object and arrangement, I can now see the value in designing the program/system that can be used to layer that information and thus support an encounter.
This diagram starts to identify ways in which an assemblage of material and object can be extracted from site to cite moments within. I would like to work into this diagram for Semester 2 within the context of a heritage site. Taking the elements of this map to extract information of a heritage site and then to create a series of assemblages that aim to create another way of entering site, through the means of immersive experiential encounters.
Designing a support diagram for arrangement of material and object
Actualising Exhibition Display
This collage shows the possibility of the exhibition design along with a video that could show possible projection.
