2009. drill baby drill
luminato art box competition. short listed.
with welland sin, jennifer thorogood
We will dematerialize the box.
Drill Baby Drill is a site-specific performance piece about fleeting experience. Over one day, life moves and traffic proceeds, while thousands of holes are being punched through the box. The walls are no longer barriers but an invitation to peek inside. In a similar way, buildings and physical spaces are no containers with today’s technology and communication.
The drilled hole recounts bygone communication signals, including morse code, constellations used in navigation, Braille, and data stored in bits and bytes. Drill Baby Drill uses this negative space to convey preferred views, reams of streaming light, and the connection between interior and exterior.
By merging installation with performance, we are creating a mobius-strip cycle that addresses our environment and interactions. The object itself moves through time, both participating in the urban landscape and re-examining the role of physical space in a world with advanced communications.
