Bingo Fury
Created in collaboration with Bingo Fury for the music video Happy Snake, this installation extended my textile practice into a fully spatial and kinetic environment. The project explored how printed silk and layered fabrics can operate as moving architectural elements—activated through engineered rotation, controlled lighting, and camera choreography.
The structure was built as a low-speed motorised rig set to approximately 1 RPM, designed to produce a slow, continuous shift rather than an obvious mechanical rotation. Metal crossbars formed the supporting frame, from which multiple layers of silk and textile panels were suspended at varied heights and tensions. Each fabric was positioned to respond differently to movement—some drifting freely, others held under slight tension to create directional pull and controlled fold.
Lighting design was integral to the installation. Key light sources were positioned to catch the fabric at specific angles, allowing translucency, shadow layering, and colour interference to evolve in real time. As the structure rotated, these conditions continuously recalibrated the visual field, meaning no frame of the video repeated in the same way.
Filming was choreographed in response to this movement. Camera positions were adjusted to follow the rhythm of the installation, capturing both macro detail—fold, surface, ink variation—and wider spatial compositions where fabric, light, and architecture merged.
What emerged was a working dialogue between material and system. The textiles were not static set dressing but active components within a calibrated environment of motion, light, and sound. This approach aligns closely with my wider practice: treating material as responsive, time-based, and structurally intelligent, where form is generated through conditions rather than imposed resolution.
