CCA Instillation

Stagefright Instillation by Suspect Culture in connection with RSAMD TPA students Calum Willoughby, Kirsty Campbell and Louise Marr.

The Project

We were asked to be involved with Suspect Cultures Stagefright Instiallation at The Centre for Comtemporary Arts (CCA) in Glasgow. This installation involved an element of suspending between 20 - 30 Silver Birch trees (sourced from a sustainable forest) above the cafe area in the CCA. The cafe has no structure above it but is an open space climing 2 levels to a glass roof. The cafe is infact located between the two buildings that have been linked to make the CCA.

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We were restriked as to the inferstructure we could build because we could not damage or mark the buildings in any way. Any structure had to be completely self supporting in that respect.

Our Solutions

Number 1 - Calum Willoughby

-What it is

Use Petzl Rigging plates [Approx £2] and coach screws [£2.79 for 10 {M10 x 90mm}]

put 2 at the base of the tree on opposite sides, and another 2 at the top of the trunk on the 3rd and 4th sides.

Cheap but not sure how safe this would be, bolting through might be easier.

-POA for rig

2 different lengths of steel

at least four 'bars' needed on the grid to attach too

-Costing

Very cheap steels need priced, [Approx £1 per meter]

Number 2 - Kirsty Campbell

-What it is

-POA for rig

-Costing

Number 3 - Louise Marr

-What it is

-POA for rig

-Costing

Number 4 - Steve Macluskie

-What it is Single Hanging Iron at the foot of the trunk. one single steel going up the trunk with a timber hitch

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-POA for rigHaul tree up at Bar end of the space, clip on and pull out to position.

-Costing £5.80 per flying iron [unlipped] Plus bolts to go right through the trunk