Minoo's Spring: A practice of Textile Cuff

Following up our last session's concentration on textile cuff, I'd like to show you one of my old works which now that I'm watching again make more sense in terms of a cuff like result that happened at the end of the practice.

Dr. Asqar Minoo is one of the leading figures of Iran in science and culture. He devoted part of his properties to an institution for orphan children before his death on 2011. Me and my colleague were so lucky that we could have access to his untouched house after his death. While we were searching in his place, we found a big case full of around hundred beautiful ties. So we thought we could make something as a hommage with those most personal belongings of him. Something that could reflect his presence.

So we came across with the idea of hanging his ties on a leafless tree and document our performance with time-lapse animation recording. The work started right before the sunrise at around 5 a.m. and ended three hours later. But when we finished hanging all the ties something unpredictable happened which satisfactorily surprised us at the moment.

I'm not gonna ruin the ending. So please watch the video and think if you've felt an automatic! cuff happened then or no?


https://vimeo.com/62105293