STASIS
Stasis sleeping in Boomland, 2016
On-site building process
3D digital base model
Constructive diagram
Stasis is a piece built while I was a member of Rethorica Studio, at the time composed of Miguel Madrinha, Pedro Pereira, Miguel Setas and Vasco Duque.
The installation was one of the winning proposals of Boom Festival 2016 Student Art competition, whose theme was Shamanism.
Boom Festival is one of the world’s most important psychedelic culture gatherings. Each two years, dozens of thousands of ravers, Neo-hippies and freaks go on a pilgrimage from the four corners of the world to celebrate life to the sound of underground electronic and acoustic music.
The site-specific piece was conceived in order to evolve with the passage of time. It was digitally modeled and built resorting to MDF profiles that function as flowerbeds. Its interior is filled with humid earth, which allows its appropriation by Nature.
Birds drop seeds that develop in its interior as the surrounding flora claims the installation. The result is the image of a ruin that progressively transforms itself with a high degree of imprevisibility.
Stasis is an entity that sleeps in communion with Gaia and by dreaming, brings Boom Festival into existence.
The Boom organization decided that Stasis will be a permanent part of the Boomland landscape.
Stasis, 2016
MDF, chicken wire, clay, sand, earth, straw and cement
400 x 800 x 208 cm