Sunday, January 27, 2008

Colloborative stuff

Random Idea #58

It would be cool to have a project that involves everybody present in actively creating some art.

I'm not great at this kind of thing, but I have seen some cool ideas.

This project, for instance, could only really be described as a boombox symphony. Volunteers get a cd or tape ahead of time, and then, as far as I can tell, they stand around and hit play at an approximate time, and then each tape plays its part and becomes part of this crazy pre-scripted performance.
We could do something like that, or give random people percussion instruments to do stuff with, or maybe have people use cellphone cameras somehow and take pictures and send them somewhere... to do something... details are a bit fuzzy still.
There's that one project where you put up an easel and have people paint on it, with brushes, or paintball guns, and then after it is covered you take a stencil off the top and reveal something awesome (like jesus or america or something) that was underneath the whole time. Obviously the cheese factor could get out of hand with that, it's probably more of a youth group object lesson, but I think the gist of it could be useful.

Bonus idea for 12:37 in the morning: hand out baseball bats and beat something into a sculptured manifestation of the group's collective rage.

1 comment:

Heather said...

Very interesting. I've heard of the boombox symphony thing. It could be interesting to try, atleast with us as a group :)

~Heather