About Meri Linna’s work during the Performing Labour ensemble residency, from the Perforing Labour product catalouge:
“Manufactured as a result of an unnamed object. These unnamed objects are considered as host objects, hereafter referred to as HO.
When the hot glass mass is collected on a stick in the furnace. In this moment, there is no distinction between the material that will create the HO and that of the Tip Object.
During the shaping of the primer part of the HO the Tip Object remains outside of the shaping mold and is shaped freely by the glassblower. After the shaping of the Tip Object is refined with handtools. The following observation is made: As little shaping time as possible in order to render a straight, stable and thin enough cleavage, which later in the process leads to its separation from the HO.
The determination of the size of an individual Tip Object relates to the amount of melted glass (unmeasured) that has been collected from the furnaces but does not fit in the shaping mold of the HO or that stays attached to the collector stick after the cleavage point is broken.”
PART OF:
Performing Labour research strand
Performing Labour residency
Performing Labour exhibition at Norrköping Art Museum
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