Jake Chidester and Alisyn Malek of Corktown Studios presents The Sidewalk Ballet AKA The Arkestral Procession, a novel series of mechanical archways that amplify a visitor’s movements into light and sound.
Installed at Dlectricity 2021, College for Creative Studies, Ford Sculpture Garden
Progress shots of the Arkestral Procession, under construction, at Corktown Studios, from prototype to load-out
Building upon the canon of work established and evolved over the last decade, The Arkestral Procession is both in the familiar wheelhouse of our past successes, and wholly original in scale, scope of equitable interactively, and form.
An interactive visual and aural composition authored by the willing and unknowing alike, The Arkestral Procession presents a novel mechanism for the amplification of the an individual’s passive contribution to the Great Collective Sidewalk Ballet into light and sound.
Everyone may be an instrument of the creative dialogue of the city sidewalk.
Pre- Pandy Shannanys in the form of Mechanical Attachment Tryptics.
