Work | The Sidewalk’s End
The Sidewalk's End, an installation at the 2013 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, is a project about experience. How can art be inextricably linked to the landscape to enhance the experience of the physical place? In an environment over-saturated with stimuli, what are the fundamental kinds of human experience that are lacking?
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The Empire Polo Fields, where the festival is held, is a 78 acre flat, horizontal expanse of grass.
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By disrupting this ground plane, the installation creates conditions of high and low, above and below, near and far, flat and sloped, all of which are conditions that could not be experienced here otherwise
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While the vast expanse of the festival has been trampled by the large crowds, The Sidewalk’s End provides a clean, grassy slope on which to rest.
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Underneath the grassy slope are interior spaces to explore.
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A lookout twelve feet above the polo field provides an entirely new perspective to festival-goers.
PROJECT: The Sidewalk’s End
LOCATION: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
CLIENT: Goldenvoice
YEAR: 2013
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COLLABORATORS: Flux Foundation
TEAM: Ali Jeevanjee, Jess Hobbs, Ben Anderson, Craig Maldonado
PHOTOGRAPHY: Flux Foundation, Ali Jeevanjee
PUBLICATIONS:
2013.05 Archinect - "The Sidewalk's End", by Flux Foundation, for Coachella 2013
