The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever. Well, nothing relative to this world.
The project is an off-shoot of The Household, an epic body of work that the fantasy trio have been developing for almost 10 years. In The Household there is a part where the Netherwoods and the Paranna King meet and subsequently get caught in an argument that carries on for several years.
A few months ago, the Gang started making a stop-motion animation about the conversation. They loved the set so much that they decided to turn it into an installation as well, and so The Dinner Party was born. Using different mediums, from classical compositions and woodcarvings, to projections and multimedia art, The Dinner Party took one month to put together.
First shown at the Out of the Box Festival at the Michaelis Campus in Cape Town, the installation invited visitors to the party as invisible voyeurs. Supposedly, it’s near the end of the “Industrial Tiff” when the major players of that war meet to discuss the matter. Unfortunately the characters (and visitors) get caught in a circular argument, which seems to carry on forever. In this strange dialogue they discuss dark matter, spaniels and babysitter unions.
Inspired by “Andronema”, the Gang explain that “gravity as we know it doesn't seem to exist in Andronema. The sun is an ancient ball of fire, trees are green explosions trapped in time.”
The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever. Well, nothing relative to this world.
The project is an off-shoot of The Household, an epic body of work that the fantasy trio have been developing for almost 10 years. In The Household there is a part where the Netherwoods and the Paranna King meet and subsequently get caught in an argument that carries on for several years.
A few months ago, the Gang started making a stop-motion animation about the conversation. They loved the set so much that they decided to turn it into an installation as well, and so The Dinner Party was born. Using different mediums, from classical compositions and woodcarvings, to projections and multimedia art, The Dinner Party took one month to put together.
First shown at the Out of the Box Festival at the Michaelis Campus in Cape Town, the installation invited visitors to the party as invisible voyeurs. Supposedly, it’s near the end of the “Industrial Tiff” when the major players of that war meet to discuss the matter. Unfortunately the characters (and visitors) get caught in a circular argument, which seems to carry on forever. In this strange dialogue they discuss dark matter, spaniels and babysitter unions.
Inspired by “Andronema”, the Gang explain that “gravity as we know it doesn't seem to exist in Andronema. The sun is an ancient ball of fire, trees are green explosions trapped in time.”
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