Project · 2012—13 · Seville
The sky is not the limit
Creation, direction and curation
Photo: Adam Newby
The sky is NOT the limit. The project was staged three times: at the Casino de la Exposición in Seville on 21 September 2012, at the Casa de la Provincia on 30 January 2013 and at the Fundación Tres Culturas on 21 September 2013.
The core of the project is always the same: an interactive installation, an origami workshop and a message tucked into each visitor’s balloon. Three hundred balloons, three hundred paper doves and three hundred messages for peace, put together with the public during the day. At the end, at a closing event, they are released.
Everyone is part of making it: the public who visit the event and the helpers. It is about letting people’s voices be heard, communicating, and being able to reflect on a basic vital need that most of society wants: peace without violence.
In each event the building and its surroundings are part of the creation: where the installation goes, where the balloons are released from, and which artists share the closing event depending on the place.
Each message carries a QR code with the project’s web address. Days later someone finds it and sends us a photo of the message they received and the place where it landed. The last one travelled 160 kilometres.
Where it came from
The pigeons of the square
From the Plaza de América, in the Parque María Luisa, where people have been feeding the pigeons for eighty years. The same square as «La Plaza de las Palomas».
Three times
The three events
With the public
The origami workshop
Fold the dove, write the message, hang it up. The installation is built during the day by the people passing through.
Three hundred balloons
The installation
And at the end of the day they are all released at once.
Credits
- Creation, direction and curation
- Rinat Izhak
- Performances
- Casino de la Exposición, Seville · 21 September 2012 Casa de la Provincia, Seville · 30 January 2013 Fundación Tres Culturas, Seville · 21 September 2013
- Photography
- Adam Newby Belleda López
- With the support of
- Casino de la Exposición Instituto de la Cultura y las Artes de Sevilla Ayuntamiento de Sevilla Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Sevilla Near Space Go Go Cards Gasur
- Programmes
- Cooperación Transfronteriza España-Fronteras Exteriores Unión Europea · Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional Creamos Fundación Tres Culturas Junta de Andalucía · Consejería de la Presidencia
- Collaborators at each event
- Listed in the video of each event