Seeing Light | Collaborative Installation @ Hickory Museum of Art (2.3.20)

Been a while since I posted about the amazing opportunity last year to collaborate with five other creatives, the Hickory Museum of Art, the Corning Foundation (and Corning Optical Communications folks) on both an exhibition about How Creativity Happens as well as this site-specific installation we created.

Below is a still shot… followed by a short Fanjoy Labrez video of us installing the piece… followed by a video that I shot of our installation. (At the very bottom, underneath the final video is the verbiage — more about this project — from my Vimeo page:)

Still image (ABOVE) of our collaborative, site-specific installation called Seeing Light. We used Corning glass fibers (some used in their fiber optics) to string/thread/cascade through and around Hickory Museum of Art’s unusual Coe Gallery architecture. Finally, a series of projected videos (where each artists’ “vision” of our project was captured) moved through these fibers onto different architectural elements of the space.

(Seeing Light was created by myself, Sally Fanjoy, and James Labrenz — Fanjoy Labrenz were the project leaders, led all the videographer/photography, as well as being their creative, amazing selves, Hunter Speagle, Claire Pope, and Michael Decker.)

This is the video from our INSTALLATION of Seeing Light — our final collaborative, site-specific work of art exploring light, glass, connectivity, etc.

Video from exciting collaborative project Carmella Jarvi's been working on since April 2019.

Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz (Fanjoy Labrenz) led this team/project with three other creatives/artists, the Hickory Museum of Art and the Corning Foundation. http://hickoryart.org/how-creativity-happens

The piece, Seeing Light, seen in this video uses glass fibers from Corning Optical Communications. https://www.corning.com/worldwide/en/products/advanced-optics/product-materials/specialty-fiber/light-diffusing-fiber2.html

The artists collaborated over many months creating video footage exploring light, glass, water, fire, communication, etc. Ultimately, these videos were edited (by the amazing Fanjoy Labrenz:) and projected onto/through the glass fibers that were draped, strung, and manipulated within the unusual architecture of the Hickory Museum of Art.

The bigger exhibition was both a documentation — with an unfolding exhibition at HMA — of the messy and ever-changing collaborative process and the ultimate creation of a custom work of art SEEN HERE where team (Jarvi, Sally Fanjoy and James Labrenz, Michael Deckard, Claire Pope, and Hunter Speagle) explored glass, light, connectivity among other things…

This was an interactive exhibit, and highly unusual in that much of the show peeked directly into the creative, collaborative process of six artists. How Creativity Happens? ended January 5, 2020.