#swing

BAM was invited to design swing works for the Nanhai Land Art Festival, which is the largest biennale art field in mainland China directed by the famous Japanese curator Fram Kitagawa. BAM brought a pair of swings to Foshan. “Swing Up”, deconstructs and rearranges the traditional Lion Dance, playfully referencing auspicious Chinese idioms. The eyes as the main element of the piece have different shapes, referring to the different characters of the dancing lion. The lions jolly mouth reveals is wide open and playful springs sway in the wind. The support columns bend subtly, abstracting into four long legs and ending with two pairs of playful ‘lucky feet’ of the dancing lion. Ballistic Architecture Machine Wu... More