Friend, artist and architect extraordinaire- Barbara Bestor will be having an opening on April 1Disco Silencio!
Disco Architecture encourages
visual excess and explores the
space between social promiscuity
and solipsistic trance. The Silent
Disco employs technologies of
superfi cial deception inspired by
Razzle Dazzle camoufl age. This
WW1 military technique used bold
graphic and anamorphic surfaces
to mislead enemy bombers about
the size, speed and direction of a
warship. Within our constructed
space this defl ective graphic
strategy is conjoined with the
refl ective effect of embedded mirror
ball fragments, whose strategy is to
distort the visual space by refracting
light - a hybrid of military and disco
architectures of surface.
Disco Refugio?
This disco is a refuge, providing
respite from the institutional
production of architecture with a
program that stimulates communal
exchange. When unfolded, the shape
of this overscale three-dimensional
form reveals a dance fl oor that invites
the social and engages the physical-
a polyhedron of hedonism. The
plywood panels appear to advance
and recede within the space,
obscuring the parameters of the
disco and offering up multiple spatial
possibilities based on the visual
perception of form. The silent disco
is a stealthy architecture, imbued
with disinformation of literal form.
Disco Colludo!
In real time the silent disco has a day and nightlife of its own. By day the
refl ective surfaces capture and refract rays, populating the space with a
silent volume of light, both tranquil and kinetic.
By night the disco has
many programs- including a downloadable soundtrack and dance parties
with dj kitty kat, lasers, projections and fog. Like any other club, the
disco silencio’s geometry naturally offers back rooms and dark corridors,
an alternative refuge to the visual din of the dance fl oor.
April 1 - May 15
SCI-Arc Gallery Exhibition
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