Marisa Morán Jahn
Picos/ FLOAT Guggenheim Late Shift Event
My Role: Studio Assistant, participating student
Highlights include, rapid prototyping, installation support, event production, volunteer coordination, fabrication support and research
Late Shift: Float
The Guggenheim
Thursday, March 21, 2024 6–8 pm EDT
I had the unique opportunity to work with Marisa Moran Jahn to produce this late shift event as part of a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at the New School and the Academic Engagement department at the Guggenheim.
Making Process, Rapid Prototyping for Interactive Installations
“In this newest Late Shift program, Jahn and her students will fill the Guggenheim’s iconic rotunda with special installations activating the museum’s architecture through playful aerial choreographies. During the program, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a miniature kite-making workshop before they are invited to watch the kites take flight down the Guggenheim’s spiral ramp! Celebrate the creativity of New York City’s young designers during this unique, hands-on event.”
“Arranged in three different configurations — a duet, a panel conversation, and an altar — the “picos” made from fans, kitchen trashbags, and tape seem to dance, squabble, and duel each other. Visitors are invited to interact in these humorously subversive rituals.”
Links
“Join us to see ephemeral performative-sculptures, make a mini-kite to fly at the Museum,, and participate in the spiral procession”
“the installations, workshop, and procession are the outcome of Kite City, a design and rapid prototyping course taught at Parsons in fall 2023 by Jahn and product designer Neva Kocic”
“fill the Guggenheim’s rotunda with special installations with playful aerial choreographies..”
