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Containers village at Next Wave Festival 12 day event, Melbourne, Australia | March 2006
Cabin Exchange: Will Foster, Charlie Bosanquet Stephen Jakub, Beth Hamer Nick Carlin, Jenny Herman
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The storage container usually contributes to a longer-term transformation of a city’s physical fabric, economy and identity. They symbolise a network of the world- wide distribution of wealth; trucking, shipping, cargo, freight, shifting, moving - seemingly with ease of transition, access-all-areas with an air of unaccountability. This ubiquitous metal object is a symbol of change, something we see as largely beyond our control and we accept as given. Can we move one, even just an inch? The event held on Sunday 26th March 2006, was made up of the people Cabin Exchange managed to source – these people attempted and succeeded to pull a 20ft by 10ft by 8ft container using ropes. The whole process of finding people to tug the 20ft storage container was recorded and using the container as a social space for meeting, interacting, researching, documenting and presenting this information will be an integrative part of the project; working with individuals and bringing them together to form a collective mass with a commonality to play a role in something larger than them. The communication and collaborative relationship is the key to the project’s evolution irrespective of the task at hand; tugging the container which may sound unlikely or even impossible. This collaboration with different groups and individuals gives the work a strong sense of identity, which no one person, artist or otherwise could achieve.
‘TECHNIQUE: PICK UP THE ROPE (rope on the right side)Pick up the rope (Hint: slip your right toe under the rope, and at the judge’s command, lift the rope with your foot and take it with your hands) and stand upright, well balanced on both feet, rope positioned between your body and the upper part of your arm. The rope should be in a straight line and fairly taut from front to rear, but a team should not stiffen themselves in any way.’
www.tugofwar.co.uk
Tug of Cabin was supported by Next Wave Melbourne and Scottish Arts Council.
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Project website www.cabinexchange.co.uk