Connect! 2015 Davy & Kristin McGuire

1. The Result

2. Artists’ Objectives

“Davy & Kristin McGuire are British/German multidisciplinary

artists, famous for their idiosyncratic experiments in digital

projection and storytelling.”

3. Artists’ Proposal

Imagine a classical goddess come to life in a museum at night

time, her marble body starts to move gently, her eyes start to

twinkle and she begins to tell you about the things she‘s seen

throughout her long life... Our artistic practice revolves around the

creation of hybrid art works that come to life through projection

mapping and storytelling. Through the Connect project we would

like to explore the potential of projection mapping onto existing art

works in combination with narrative ideas from staff and museum

visitors in order to breathe life into sculptures, paintings or similar

figurative art objects.

4. Museums’ Responses

“We have a marble statue,... “

“Davy and Kristin McGuire’s practice will unlock mesmeric

stories, bringing to life the voices in the paintings [...], “

“With enchanting and intriguing figurative art, and magical yet

dark stories, similar in theme to Ophelia’s Ghost and the

Haunted Dress, the [...] hopes to lure the McGuires.”

5. Museums’ Responses

“We’d like the artists to create a path of installation

through the dimly lit museum, with each piece

referencing a case or object within the collections. “

“a Lotte Reiniger inspired silhouette performance with

the young people using a McGuire designed

backdrop.”

“Equipment hire: £200”

“Our event should be appealing to local families with

young children,”

6. Museums’ Responses

7. Collaboration

8. Benefits

“The charming but confrontational statue is a sure fire way to completely reinvent how

you think about figurative sculpture. The installation explores the relationship we hold

with sculpture from the perspective of the statue. On some levels it is a very well told

joke, but on others it is an incredible question to ask of an eternity of gallery goers – a

question rarely put to the gallery going public: Why are we so obsessed with the

human form that we’ve become paradoxically indifferent to it?”