Art And Deception?: Recycled Rainbow Art Guidelines

Art Work

We are not here to define what art is. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to create art at Recycled Rainbow, from small and portable to large sculptural pieces. There is plenty of wide open spaces to work with, as well as a forested area to create with. You are only limited by your imagination as to what can happen. We encourage everyone with an art installation to register. This will ensure that space is reserved for your project. If your art project is part of a theme camp, you do not need to register here.

The guide below is intended to give you a few guidelines in planning and executing your art installation, but also in executing any medium or large scale project including Theme Camps.

Planning

• Know Your Limits

• Write Out A Plan

• Consider Your Materials Carefully
  

• Build Prototypes – Do NOT come to RR with an art installation that you have not had some experience building.

• Practice Transporting Your Installation

• Secure Your Structure

Burning Your Structure

If you wish to burn your structure at the end of the event you are more than welcome to. However, we need to know this before the event, when you register your art installation. You are also responsible for fire safety and ensuring that burning your structure will leave no damage on the land you are burning it on. This means that you either construct a burn platform or return the next weekend to clean up.

Some questions to consider when registering the art installation:

1. What fuels/fire base will you use when you burn your structure? Will you stack firewood inside it to burn it? How will you make it burn pretty-like?

2. Is there any kind of performance that will happen when it burns? What’s the order things will happen?

3. When will you prep the structure for burning (when will you fuel it)?

4. How will you light it?

5. How long will it take to burn?

6. How will it collapse?

7. Will it become a campfire for people to enjoy after it collapses?

Burn Platforms:

Burn Platform Designs work best for artworks that are lighter and will not be supporting the weight of participants climbing or walking. The idea with this design is to create a separation of at least 6 inches or more from the ground to the bottom of the burn shield and to support the weight of the artwork. This type of design is usually constructed of flat or corrugated steel sheeting supported by and securely fastened to either steel legs or cinder blocks. A key factor in a successful design of this type is not to have any wood or other materials below or hanging over the steel sheeting as these will be set ablaze from the radiant heat defeating the shielding effect of the steel. If the Burn Platform material is flimsy there is the potential of everything collapsing onto the ground, defeating the purpose of Burn Shield. Another example of a burn shield. You are also responsible for removing all the burnt material and ash.

Sound Installations

While Recycled Rainbow is determined to provide an environment conducive and supportive of open expression, including sound volumes, we also value the individual needs of each of our participants. If you are building an installation or stage that integrates or features sound, You are responsible for contacting your neighbors before setting up and alerting them to what will transpire. Be courteous, make friends with your neighbors, and learn to enjoy solving problems in creative ways harmonious with the RR community.

Did We Mention That You Are Responsible For Your Own Art?

Once again, Recycled Rainbow will not take responsibility for any personal or property damage caused by your art installation- this includes from fire, structural problems or activities performed inside your installation.

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Register your art installation

A List of Registered Art Installations

Hanging Fire Cube

9 Volt Haunted House will play at the same time the installation is ignited.

The Keeper

There is a place where naughty boys and girls are sent to punish them for their transgressions.  No, it is not their rooms.  No, it is not juvenile hall.
It is “The Keeper”.
Late for your volunteer shift?  Spend some time in The Keeper.
Wantonly leave MOOP on the ground?  Spend some time in The Keeper.
Play “The Final Countdown” during your DJ session?
You will definitely be spending time in ….”THE KEEPER”
And everyone will know why you are there.
Derision and mockery are heartily encouraged

The Lonely Night Emperor

When the sun goes down the lonely emperor waits for the people to gather round and become its temporary subjects.  This interactive, twenty-foot tall light-instrument requires two or more to play and learns the activities of its musicians acting differently each time it is played. The emperor wishes to please its subjects and without its subjects.. there is no emperor.

The Medicine Wheel

The Medicine Wheel – a profound way of knowledge and path of healing.
Life is a circle. The universe is a circle. What goes around, comes around and what we put out comes back to us.  Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.

The Pathway Lamps

The pathway through the center of The Invisible City will be subtly illuminated by a series of lamps each evening, guiding the lonely, the lost, the mildly impaired on their way.