Spiderman's Yoga
Who is that necessary of sophisticated devices of gymnastics academies when it has a full house of furniture, doors, stairs and corridors? The pair of English artists James Ford, 22, and Spencer Harrison, 29, not. In only one afternoon, in the city of Nothingham, England, the youngsters had created a form to exercise the body scaling tables and closets, esquivando themselves enter chairs inside, twisting the body in a railing or shrinking themselves of a refrigerator.
The contrataste of any mother was born there - who preze the cleanness of its walls what Ford and Harrison had called "House Gymnastics": one mixes of yoga, dance of street, scaling and gymnastics that must inside be practised of house. "Everything started because we needed to hang a curtain in the room and, as we did not have a ladder, invent movements to obtain to make it. But it does not have as to deny that boredom was an important element in the invention of the "House Gym '", explains Ford, for email, to the Folhateen.
Each position was baptized with a parody of the positions of yoga that, according to Ford, they are "contorcionismos and allonges with bizarros names". To divulge the newness, the pair created a site (www.housegymnastics.com) that it explains the technique of the "House Gym", has photos of the created positions, gives tips of as to arrive they - step by step -, and alert for the necessary precautions to the exercise.
In six weeks, the address registered 80 a thousand visits more than. "I find that the" House Gym "made success because can be practised by any one, at any time, and because it remembers the people of its infancy, of when they scaled the house all trying to imitate its favourite heroes. But, moreover, it is an artistic performance that enriches a banal domestic environment with new meanings and excitement ", defends Ford. Now, she discovers its Homem-Aranha side and she turns the house legs for air. But cost not to inform: care with its neck.
[translated from Portuguese]
Who is that necessary of sophisticated devices of gymnastics academies when it has a full house of furniture, doors, stairs and corridors? The pair of English artists James Ford, 22, and Spencer Harrison, 29, not. In only one afternoon, in the city of Nothingham, England, the youngsters had created a form to exercise the body scaling tables and closets, esquivando themselves enter chairs inside, twisting the body in a railing or shrinking themselves of a refrigerator.
The contrataste of any mother was born there - who preze the cleanness of its walls what Ford and Harrison had called "House Gymnastics": one mixes of yoga, dance of street, scaling and gymnastics that must inside be practised of house. "Everything started because we needed to hang a curtain in the room and, as we did not have a ladder, invent movements to obtain to make it. But it does not have as to deny that boredom was an important element in the invention of the "House Gym '", explains Ford, for email, to the Folhateen.
Each position was baptized with a parody of the positions of yoga that, according to Ford, they are "contorcionismos and allonges with bizarros names". To divulge the newness, the pair created a site (www.housegymnastics.com) that it explains the technique of the "House Gym", has photos of the created positions, gives tips of as to arrive they - step by step -, and alert for the necessary precautions to the exercise.
In six weeks, the address registered 80 a thousand visits more than. "I find that the" House Gym "made success because can be practised by any one, at any time, and because it remembers the people of its infancy, of when they scaled the house all trying to imitate its favourite heroes. But, moreover, it is an artistic performance that enriches a banal domestic environment with new meanings and excitement ", defends Ford. Now, she discovers its Homem-Aranha side and she turns the house legs for air. But cost not to inform: care with its neck.
[translated from Portuguese]
(Fernanda Mena, Folha de S.Paulo Newspaper, February 2003)
Selected reviews and interviews:
LeftLion You Are Here Visual Arts ICE Magazine BBC News Online Leeds Guide Sydney Sunday Telegraph Tablet Newspaper Nottingham Evening Post Folha de S.Paulo Newspaper Dazed&Confused City Lights
LeftLion You Are Here Visual Arts ICE Magazine BBC News Online Leeds Guide Sydney Sunday Telegraph Tablet Newspaper Nottingham Evening Post Folha de S.Paulo Newspaper Dazed&Confused City Lights
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