The Way Things Go 2

Following on from our first session in this project where we played with purpose, using objects to build stable but precarious structures, we now experimented with making these structures move.

The simple task of making balls move, through a chain of events, across a table kept us challenged for nearly and hour and a half!

We watched a film by artists Peter Fichili and David Weiss, called The Way Things Go, for the second time and thought about the different actions that made the objects move. Sliding, catapulting, balancing, falling, nudging.

First we worked in 2’s to create a simple chain of movements.

Click the link below to see the video clips.

Neela Ciara

Neela Ciara 2

M, Lucy and Rosie

M, Lucy, Rosie 2

Harriet

Then we worked as a team, joining our ideas together to make the balls move across the table.

It’s harder than it looks!

We tested actions

Refined ideas

Negotiated

And finally we came up with this

Final group scene – Video Clip