The Fandango Foundry
13_02_2010
>> Inspired by the British tradition of amphigouri and literary nonsense, we will conduct a tour of the ICA, looking for quirks, details and curious objects in & around Carlton Terrace. Following this we will temporarily transform the Fox Reading Room into a Fandango ‘foundry’, where we will concoct PLAYWORKS ‘Fandangos’- miniature nonsense objects that tell tall tales about the building.
These images depict an inspiration behind this workshop- London Design Committee’s ‘Plastic Fandangos’, conceived as non-sense products; visions of quotidian items from a parallel universe that parody and expose the oddness of our own familiar gadgets. I am interested in how they have coalesced and juxtaposed manufacturing techniques in order to learn about the materials themselves, but also to create curious beautiful objects.
Domestic Viewfinder, 2008
Plastic fire alarm base, plumbing fixing, pink toy rolling pin, dolls’ house window, cork knob, resin peg,wind-up mechanism.
We can either re-imagine and hybridise real uses or things we have found, or create a new fantasy amalgam. We will use our imagination as well as factual reference for inspiration.
By making critical selections about what intrigues them and interpreting that information into new objects, children (and myself) will ba able see the building and its spaces, surfaces and functions in a new light. The intention is to discover how 'architectural objects' can inform new architectures.
Once our nonsensical hybrid objects are made, they will be used as centre pieces in the cafe for the rest of the day, causing curiosity and bewilderment amongst customers... and thus stir intrigue about PLAYWORKS among those who discover them.
Fandango: n.
- A lively Spanish dance for two people, typically accompanied by castanets or tambourine.
- A foolish or useless act or thing
Brendan Lee Tang describes himself "playing with looking at how history is really malleable and how it can really shift. We almost think that history is this kind of static story that's unchanging, but it's not.”
In his Manga Ormolu series Tang enters the dialogue on contemporary culture, technology and globalization through a fabricated relationship between ceramic tradition (using the form of Chinese Ming dynasty vessels) and techno-Pop Art. The futuristic update of the Ming vessels in this series recalls 18th century French gilded ormolu, where historic Chinese vessels were transformed into curiosity pieces for aristocrats.
In his Manga Ormolu series Tang enters the dialogue on contemporary culture, technology and globalization through a fabricated relationship between ceramic tradition (using the form of Chinese Ming dynasty vessels) and techno-Pop Art. The futuristic update of the Ming vessels in this series recalls 18th century French gilded ormolu, where historic Chinese vessels were transformed into curiosity pieces for aristocrats.
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