4shrooms

andi on oils, oils on tent

back from Symposion Lindabrunn and our first cut of Lux Ludica.  I’m attempting to upload some imagery, but failing dismally, it seems that TCP of greater that 80k is now banned across the english channel. Fixed, the problem was closer to me than I thought… now uploaded in large format only.  (I still have no way to create small images from the big ones.)

The story was that we converged — almost all the 4shroomies and some friends, extras and cameras — on Symposion Lindabrunn to try out our ideas for a weekend “event”.  Now that we have proven the basic idea, the work begins on making it somewhat more serious … next year!

Luckily we got some support from Angewandte who purchased a huge tent for such productions.  This arrived the day before us, so we got to put it up in its virginal near-white state.  As it was some 10m x 5m, it took up almost all of the floor space in the ampitheatro!  From the outside, it made for a very nice screen, and the inside was just too chill-out for words.

Also, we included a couple of friends, Dominic and his mate (name?) who brought along 25 slide projectors :-~ We like enthusiasm, but that’s a first!  It also caused lots of scrurrying around for extra power.  Luckily again, the Lindabrunn place has scads of power:  3 x 3 phase circuits, and we used them all.

crystal, colours, trick lens and lazy susan!

Which makes for a new record for 4shrooms:  4×16mm, 4xOHP, 5xDias and with the 15 of Dominic, we are up to 28 projectors.  A tough challenge.

Shroomies, get your photos up there…. Mine were not that grand as I was doing other things.

Thanks to Gurter, Johana, Kurt for hosting us.  Thanks to Pablo and Matthias for video support!  Next year, with a vengeance!

st9fan posted these pictures in a dark corner of the net, but to no avail, we found ‘em:

These were taken at Meran, Italy at the recent [un]defined event in parallel with Manifesta.

After much pushing and shoving, we agreed to try projecting directly on the concrete of the parade ground.

Much to our surprise, it worked! Having big meaty projectors helped a lot here, but the addiction is fatal to the budget…

In the background of this shot, the columns to the stage roof can be seen:

This was a marvel of modern engineering, it was possible to raise and lower the roof by means of 4 pully&chains and 4 motors, on each column.

No, there was no synchronisation between the motors, and one night someone futzed with it, leaving the roof tilted like a broken dollhouse. Luckily no damage done.