RedBall Project Returns to U.S. Soil in Arizona
kurt on Nov 27 2007 at 3:15 pm | Filed under: News
New York, NY - November 2007 - Kurt Perschke’s RedBall Project, an ongoing site-specific installation, returns to the U.S. after much success from around the globe. From Barcelona to Busan to Sydney, RedBall Project has garnered public, critical and media attention worldwide. Its next incarnation will take place in Scottsdale, AZ from January 18th through February 1st, 2008.
RedBall Project is a mobile sculptural performance that functions as a series of daily installations over a period of 1- 3 weeks. The site-specific installations of the 15-foot inflatable sphere will be boldly present and smoothly transient, moving between chosen locations and engaging people on the Scottsdale streets. As public art that migrates, RedBall is unique in each city. Perschke works onsite considering and curating RedBall within a city’s distinct urban landscape. The artist’s decisions about embedding RedBall address not only architecture and urban space, but also anticipate the flow of people, traffic and the observer’s eye. What used to be neglected space becomes a realm of possibilities.
Compressed in every site, RedBall changes its own shape as well as the space it inhabits, directly reflecting our experience of metropolitan density. Perschke conceives that RedBall is “a surrogate to our own body’s navigation of urban environment, and ultimately a transferable act of imagination.”
Future RedBall locales are currently under consideration for cities in Asia, Europe, Turkey and the United States.
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