Cut-up tent
In collaboration with Catherine Greene
As we are cutting up our tent into bags and wallets we present a selling space that become the product.
This project took place during the Berlin DesignMai 2006 where 12 students from the Royal College of Art presented a ‘Car Boot Sale’ under the DesignMai theme DesignCity. The ‘car boot sale’ or ‘flea market’ was a presentation of an alternative market place within which we presented individual projects. Cut-Up tent was a direct response to this installation.
In our Cut-up tent, selling became a performance. The products which we sold, bags and wallets, were integrated (pre-stitched) into the design of the tent so in order to sell a product it had to be cut-out of the tent. In this way we were simultaneously selling the space and the products. When a product was sold the customer was given the responsibility of cutting out his own product.
As the products were sold the image of the tent was continuously changing; the empty or negative space telling the story of what products had gone and what was left.
Cut-up tent was a site specific project. The concept - where we sell our selling space and this space becomes the product - is something we intend to explore in different materials and situations.
