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Sophomore at WIT (Fall 2006) Tony Nguyen

For this project we had to study a performance artist. The artist that I studied was Joseph Beuys. His core ideas focus on healing which became the main concept of this space. A study of Chinatown Boston, revealed that it was crowded, dirty, smelly, old, and noisy. To be able to heal Chinatown, the space must be clean, inviting, not crowded, and fresh. I used a lotus flower as the symbol of healing. The concept I developed from the lotus was layers of walls. The layers can be used to control spaces, create transparencies, and to change views.

The performance space that was created in Chinatown became a spiral of layers. The layers or walls of the space became an important part of the space and they were twisted to create a parallax view. The layers descend into the ground so a person going through the space sees the layers differently. Space in the center remains open to allow a person to perform. People that walk by the space can catch a glimpse of the performance because the walls allow people to see into the space.