Thursday, June 24, marked the completion and private preview of Pole Dance, SO-IL’s summer pavilion for MoMA PS1. A field of 30ft poles mounted on movable wind sail joints covers the entire outdoor courtyard with a canopy of white netting. The poles and netting are bungeed into place, allowing visitors to shake and sway the elastic structure creating ripples of motion across the network. A series of colorful interventions complete the system: fluorescent yoga balls, hammocks, pull rings and a wading pool offer obstruction, rest and play to all museum participants.

Entry view

Shadows

Push Pull & Play

Rest & Relaxation

Wading Pool

pool floaty inspired bench

in use

the crowd

During the New York summer, take every opportunity to drink outdoors. Designer Geoff Han with Florian Idenburg, SO-IL partner

Jing Liu, SO-IL partner with Yoonjai Choi, 2x4

Ilias Papageorgiou, SO-IL project lead

In addition to working on a visual identity and promotional materials for PD, we (2×4) collaborated with SO-IL and Arup Acoustics to develop an interactive soundspace in the axillary courtyard. Eight poles in the courtyard are embedded with accelerometers, similar to ones found in your iPhone. As users shake the poles, sound is generated from speakers mounted on the courtyard walls that correspond to the vibrations of the poles. iPhone users can also log on to poledance.ps1.org and collaboratively control the sounds coming from the speakers, or watch a series of visualizations in real time.

Auxillary courtyard

iPhone Webapp located at poledance.so-il.org

There were a lot of great people that donated their time and energy to making this happen. Checkout the Pole Dance website for full details. MoMA PS1’s Summer Warm Up series kicks off next Saturday, July 3 and Pole Dance is open to the public in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. Get your ass outside for some music and interactive architecture. This summer is gonna be awesome.

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