Forays
From CT4CT: Creative Tools for Critical Times
Forays is an artistic collective made up of Adam Bobette and Geraldine Juarez. They are committed to the ethics of copyleft, hacking, larceny, alternative forms of exchange, and the public domain.
According to Forays:
Forays is a collaborative entity concerned with the creation of more forays. A foray throws us into the uncertain territory of collaboration and against the autonomous ego. A foray is an incomplete project. It means to head into the field with experiments and return with results, as partial as those may be. A foray rarely provides final results but instead tends towards opening possibilities, confusion is acceptable if not necessary for successful forays. A foray must be compelled by the ethics of copyleft, hacking, larceny, alternative forms of exchange, and released within the public domain. Our investigations have tended towards creating and researching open-ended minor architectures and the modification of everyday infrastructure.
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Projects
The Cocoon Project
Forays' Cocoon Project (2007) is a series of lightweight, portable and easy to build shelters. They were originally built to study tree canopies and how the geometry of leaves interacts with light.
According to Forays:
It is necessary that the cocoons are easy to assemble, cheap and comfortable. Its materials and operation are purposely low-tech. The constraints of the cocoons taught us the poetry and elegance of knots and folds and weight and we learned to source and hack spaces and infrastructures for their free and cheap materials.
See also:
- Forays: Cocoon Project
- We Make Money Not Art: Interview with Forays: Geraldine Juárez and Adam Bobbette
Gentrify!
Geraldine Juarez's Gentrify! (2008) is a tool for de-gentrification. It consists of a printed roll of yellow tape (similar to caution tape) that is designed to "de-gentrify" real estate offices and mark the borders of "up and coming" neighborhoods. Geraldine Juarez is a designer from Mexico City based in Brooklyn. She is one half of the artistic collective Forays and a Senior Fellow at Eyebeam Atalier
See also:
- simple.mechanisms: Gentrify!
- Forays
- We Make Money Not Art: Interview with Forays: Geraldine Juarez and Adam Bobbette
