OneHundredFortySeven

Saturday, October 16th, 2010.

Today, with James O’Donovan & Stephen Barry added to the team, we actually completed the construction of the pallet stack – floor cover, monitor and seating felt to follow.

James & Steve – thank you!

Real stuff

Thursday, 14th October 2010.

150 pallets have been delivered and stowed. 1 mile of polypropylene strapping and 75 square meters of underlay are at hand. The project is taking physical reality.

We want to thank Wood Systems of Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo for generously supplying us with wooden pallets. Limerick Packaging for strapping and tools. James Clery Furniture and Flooring, Limerick for underlay. Limerick Paint Supplies for the loan of a forklift. And all the caretakers at LSAD for their help in moving the pallets.

Method Statement

Wednesday, 13th October 2010.

Upon delivery, the wooden pallets will be moved by motorised pallet truck operated by instructed personnel. No lifting equipment will be used inside the church gallery. The construction process is designed to create a stepped set-up so that every single pallet can be carried up safely by a two-person team. The maximum height is 2.40m above floor (the pallets shown in the illustration are 1200mm long, 800mm wide and 144mm high). Pallets are stacked flat. Already during the process the pallets are secured in place by industrial-grade polypropylene strapping. Dismantling happens in reverse order to construction. The construction and dismantling process are supervised by a team member involved in the design process. During construction and dismantling all involved are advised to wear appropriate work gear: protective footwear and rigger gloves when handling the pallets. Supervision during the exhibition remains in the responsibility of the curators.

Re:Design

Tuesday, 5th October, 2010.

A team of architecture students from SAUL, the School of Architecture at the University of Limerick, was commissioned to design an indoor installation to facilitate the viewing of a documentary film as part of the Table of Contents exhibition. The conception and design of this installation was to become part of this exhibition project on creative practice as an exemplar of architectural creativity. – ‘The Drawing Board’ are Edel Murphy, Diarmuid O’Súilleabháin, Adrian Clery and Jan Frohburg.

Taking inspiration from the many depictions of St Jerome in his study, the Drawing Board proposes creating a ‘room within a room,’ a situation that induces focused attention whilst maintaining a tensioned balance between the imposing presence of LSAD’s Church Gallery and the intimate experience of watching artists’ creations unfold before your eyes. The proposed intervention intends to remove the viewer from the simultaneous confines of the white-walled exhibition space and the former church, and to provide a distinctly different sensorial experience that allows the space to be viewed in a new way.

Set out to control movement, to arrest the visitors’ wanderings through the exhibition the installation guides them around and up into the viewing space. Aiming to create a threshold situation rather than containment, the design explores possibilities of a raised platform in combination with a suspended or transparent envelope. With an interest in slowness comes attention to detail and texture that informs the choice of materials. The design engages materials that combine apparent lightness and sensuality with an assertive strength vis-à-vis the eclectic church interior. – With the project limited to a minimal budget, the design takes recourse to using borrowed materials and rendering an elementary spatial condition by defining two sides of an enclosure and the floor.

Re:Arrangement

Tuesday, 5th October, 2010.

We have revised the design and simplified the arrangement in response to limited funds and time for realisation. Materials were reduced to rough wooden pallets and soft felt covering. The raised platform is enclosed on two sides. The stack-pattern creates a niche for the monitor, now becoming an integral part of the structure.