LEVITY, GRAVITY, PERIPATEIA: a proposal for interior public space.

Placed centrally within a high-vaulted architectural space, a trampoline is an invitation to the singular pleasure of defying gravity. One by one, the audience may mount the apparatus to jump. Each participant's efforts are visually recorded as they rise, peak, and fall. That momentary sensation of mid-air hover, after the rise and before the fall, is here being paralleled to the concept of peripateia or ‘the pregnant moment’, when past and future hang in the balance. It is these small yet significant instants from each user-experience that the artists will extract as data, printing still images on-site for local display and distribution, while instantaneously posting data to a website for a global audience. Images, both still and moving, will gradually constitute an archive of weightless moments for the public to access as the exhibition unfolds. The juxtaposition of a semantically-charged architectural space with the apparently thoughtless activity of jumping, is intended to cause reflection on behalf of the user - fusing the concepts of humor and profundity to invoke in the participant the possibility for revelation and the production of personal significance. For the remote spectatorship a 'hovering' animation of diverse humanity is just one way of experiencing the data collected on site.