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15. In your opinion, what was the weakest work in the exhibition and
why?
There were some pieces that were disappointing because technically they didn’t
deliver what we expected. The ‘Ibuki’ object was a beautiful object but it didn’t
work the way that we thought it was going to work. I was disappointed about
that - we worked very much with what we had it did get the most gorgeous
plinth imaginable it was lit with a beautiful dappled light and the sounds it
emitted were gorgeous. It just wasn’t working the way that we thought it was
going to work, you could always hear what it was doing, and you expect a silent
object that resonated with your bone structure. You could hear it all the time
and so I was a bit disappointed in that but still enjoyed resting my ear on it. It
still had a nice feeling to it. We know its nothing compared to the giant ‘Ibuki’
object that we saw originally. Which we could have made quite easily for them
here and I think that we should have pushed for that - to have made a large
‘Ibuki’ object because it would have held its own more. I’m not quite sure where
we would have put it in the scheme of things. I do regret the fact that we should
have pushed to reconstruct a UK ‘Ibuki’ object at its original scale and rope
material and not the pebble that we got which was lovely and I’m pleased that
we worked with those two artists but the original object would have been much
more powerful. I still think that technically it still would not have worked right.
16. Were you surprised by any work in the show? Why?
I think possibly the ‘Wi-Fi Camera Obscura’ was the most surprising thing from
an industrial design perspective I loved its eccentricity and wasn’t really
expecting that to be the case. I was pleased that we were able to make a second
one and develop the relationship with the partners in the building, we actually
had this split view. I don’t know whether or not if the piece of work is actually
doing anything really or how it really works. I know that one of our volunteers
did come into us and say he’d found somewhere on-line with instructions of
how to make a ‘Wi-Fi Camera Obscura’. Those two things didn’t really go
together. That one did surprise me the most and when it arrived the industrial
design element of it I found very satisfying. It had such a gorgeous sense of
design as well so there use of a pink foam card, etc and the way that they were
clustering things together. It had a home made quality to it they weren’t trying
to be the perfect of physical devices but everything was evident. Then our
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