{"id":1490,"date":"2007-06-14T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T08:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/the-wireframe-series-sentimental-construction-1\/"},"modified":"2007-06-14T10:11:43","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T08:11:43","slug":"the-wireframe-series-sentimental-construction-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/14\/the-wireframe-series-sentimental-construction-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wireframe Series: Sentimental Construction # 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

More from Croatia soon, but we performed the first “Sentimental Construction” here before guests started arriving, and I’m not sure it could have gone any better. Watch the video!<\/p>\n

Sentimental Construction #1<\/em>, part of The Wireframe Series<\/em>
\nsite-specific, publicly performed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153spaces,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d made of rope (2007), support by iCommons<\/a><\/p>\n

These are ephemeral arrangements that, nonetheless, carve out space and frame their various contexts; they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153sentimental\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the tensions they create between sadness and playfulness, nostalgia and possibility, construction and emergence, the pre-formed and the per-formed.<\/p>\n

\"sentimental<\/p>\n

More flickr photos here<\/a>. Thanks to Joy Garnett for her video space, as well as all the performers \/ documentarians \/ collaborators: JC Bukenya, Tomislav Domis, Joy Garnett, Ana Husman, Kathryn Smith, Tim Whidden (MTAA) and Jaka Zeleznikar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More from Croatia soon, but we performed the first “Sentimental Construction” here before guests started arriving, and I’m not sure it could have gone any better. Watch the video! 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