The technical complexity of enveloping and securing a mass of transparent gauze fabric around the installation posed a challenge. Other technical considerations included a floor walkway base in which the varying sizes of the curved plywood had to be attached to the floor had to be painted onsite as well as the curved arches. Strengthening capabilities in accordance to other design aspects. The bent plywood had to be pre-fabricated and adjusted onsite due to the demands of scale and The challenges of working with such materials is primarily the transformation of scale. Collective Architecture set up a temporary workshop in a local art studio in order to fabricate the giant timber rings by gluing multiple layers of flexible plywood around formers. The tunnel was constructed with bent plywood in order to create a light malleable frame which the red mesh was sewn around.

The creative and technical design aspects incorporated into the product Collective Architecture’s role was to design and co-ordinate the exhibition which involved the manufacture of the Display cases Mock up model to discuss at meeting.Įxhibits displayed in cases giant Going Viral mesh tunnel. It is the space that bonds all these and connects them with the immunology they have explored or experienced. The experiences and encounters of those who visit it will spread, virus like, across real and virtual networks and will continue to grow beyond the life of the exhibition.Ĭollective Architecture designed and built an installation for the exhibition to function as a ‘host body’, a space within a space, which frames the participating artists’ interventions inside and outside the structure, embodying the collaborative processes shared between artists, immunologists and the individuals who are the subjects of the artists’ work.

Going Viral begins as an exhibition comprising stories, film, sculpture, images and music. Through their joint exploration of key functions of our immune system - and the daily battles it fights - the Going Viral artists have produced artworks that consider, question, interpret and present the immunology they have researched. It is the culmination of a collaborative programme of work undertaken by 5 artists, 1 architect and 4 immunologists. Going Viral is an innovative artscience project.

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