Rivulets
Blown Glass, Time, Temperature; Video
H: 42”, W: 72”, D: 12”
2018
What started as a collaborative video experiment with the Manufacturing, Technology, & Engineering Laboratory at Corning, Incorporated has become part of a body of work that seeks to find a place where material observance lends way to allegory.
The slow, fluid movement of these objects as they undergo structural compromise emulates human instances of an overwhelmed human body manifested through sweat or tears. The finished condition of each cup in the video is displayed next to the projection of their changing.
Through unlikely junctions between blown glass, kiln forming, material paradox and performative activity, the codes of technique and the rules of “doing things well” are confronted by a provocative and equally thoughtful exploration of what “(un)doing things well” could reveal. The Meaningful Gibberish Project is a body of work motivated by language and the dialectal phenomenon of speaking in tongues; oddball approaches to standard methods of glass practice as a means to explore notions of time, temperature, force and physics at the intersection of rigor and irreverence.
The following is a study of 2 cup subjects constructed in the glass studios of RIT placed in "glamour pose" and exposed to an atmosphere of 676 C.
*Facilities and video documentation provided by staff in Corning, Incorporated's Materials, Technology, and Engineering Laboratory.
*Score composed, performed, and provided as an audible interpretation of this study by Nathan Miner (@nateminermusic)