Boundless in Space
Interactive Sculpture
Boundless in Space – exhibited both in London and in Aarhus – is a pink creature which reacts in movement and in sound to spectators coming near. The pink ‘furniture like’ sculpture is interactive and augmented with responsive robotics and proximity sensors and moves ever so slightly as it is approached.
Created by
Tine Bech Studio
Electronics by Sam Woolf
Presented at
Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design, UK 2009
The Shire Hall Gallery, UK 2007
Aarhus Kunstbygning (Centre for Contemporary Art), Denmark 2002
The Big Blip 03, Festival of creative arts, science and technology, UK 2003
Antenna Studios CP Artists Signal, London, UK, 2003
Foyer Gallery, Farnham, UK, 2002
The sculpture's movement is random but its stays within a certain area. Its main pink body is covered with peculiar, spore-like semi spheres and growths, some of which appear to have escaped across the floor and which scuttle away, clicking nervously when approached by blundering feet.
Interested in more sculptures that respond to movement with noise? Check out Echidna!
Her tactile materials are reminders of physicality – we want to touch her objects, we need to walk around them, to experience them, to meet them and they interact with us, responding to our proximity."
In Bech’s practice the absence of pompous statements, of grand schemes awards the work a force which is quietly subversive, implicating the viewer in an active relationship. A lingering impression, a gentle vulnerability, a greater subtlety of meaning is offered, allowing space for coming to terms with its substance and freedom to define or leave unsaid."
