Work With Me People
2014
The series of workshops titled Work With Me people has been created by Bart Hess and commissioned by MU gallery. The first workshop featured during Dutch Design Week 2012, soon followed by national and international editions at galleries and exhibitions.
Within the confines of a futuristic sweatshop, the aim of the workshop is to allow people to familiarize with Bart’s work.
Under the strict supervision of a team of cyborg instructors, the participants take part in the making of Bart’s outlandish textiles performing simple, repetitive acts such as dripping, pinning or gluing. Despite the rigid appearance of the sweatshop production line, the workshop actually aims to highlight the importance and beauty of the discrepancies between the handy work of each participant to achieving the organic look of Hess’ textiles.
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The shell-like shapes were created by visitors of the installation who layered two small pieces of mesh onto a spoon to form a unique moiré effect.
To seal the two layers together glue was used, with the spoon acting as a mould for the final shape. Once the glue had dried, the fabric was removed from the spoon and the excess textile cut away.
Each shell shape was attached to a mesh textile base using metal appliques, resulting in a dynamic, multiple layered textile.
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Thousands of manually applied liquid latex drops collectively create a bubbly-surfaced rubber. The textile is the result of tension between a basic layer of latex sheet and the countless drops of liquid latex applied by the visitors.
The latex base sheet is stretched and clammed to its maximum size and then covered with the liquid latex drops using pipets. Once the drops have dried the latex sheet is released and returned to its original size, causing the drops to move closer together and creating a tight skin of rubber bubbles.
WORK WITH ME PEOPLE
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Bart Hess
info@barthess.nl
Studio Address :
Gasfabriek 18
5613 CP Eindhoven
the Netherlands