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RedBall : Taipei from Kurt Perschke on Vimeo.

RedBall : Chicago (Winner ADDY) from Kurt Perschke on Vimeo.

RedBall SUNKING ( 1min concept) from Kurt Perschke on Vimeo.

RedBall : Sydney (actions) from Kurt Perschke on Vimeo.

UICA interview with Kurt Perschke from Kurt Perschke on Vimeo.

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Credits

RedBall Taipei
Camera: Anthony Gaddis
Editor: Anthony Gaddis, The Fountain Studio

RedBall Chicago (short form) 4 min *Winner 2009 ADDY
Camera: Anthony Gaddis
Editor: Anthony Gaddis, The Fountain Studio

RedBall Chicago “SunKing” concept short 30 sec
Camera: Anthony Gaddis
Editor: Anthony Gaddis, The Fountain Studio

Sydney Actions 2:40
Camera: Bradney Evans, Kurt Perschke
Editor: Kurt Perschke

RedBall: Barcelona | St. Louis
4:30 Camera: Art Larson, Kurt Perschke, Bradney Evans
Editor: Margaret Newman, Alan Brunettin

RedBall: Portland 3:00
Camera: Scott Mazariegos, Kurt Perschke
Stills: Kurt Perschke
Editor: Scott Mazariegos

RB Quotes

'Every time a passerby says - 'You know, I know the perfect place to put it!' - RedBall has succeeded in creating a moment of imagination. This is the core of the Project's goal, not the object itself, but how in relation to a site and in the context of its temporary movements, the passerby can immediately take it on as an imaginative act.'
Kurt Perschke, Artist
'One of the best things about RedBall Project is that it's really very funny. The absurdity of this balloon-at-large makes you smile. It also brings, like all good sculpture, a compulsion to reach out and touch.'
Matt Buchanan, The Sydney Magazine
'He draws upon the already rich and full context of the city in which the ball is sited, not remolding it, but rather interacting and playing with it. In our experience of this work we find the spaces of the city and, in the tradition of Duchamp, we play a role.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'The temporary has the potential to afford public participation in its making of during its life. So, RedBall lives in all its conceived or carried-out musings on lace, in all the impossible places it occupied but could not remain. Whereas for the Kapoor (sculpture in Millennium Park) great lengths were taken at great expense to achieve the near impossible, RedBall breathes because of its temporality. RedBall invokes impermanence in its constant mutability and migration.'
Mary Jane Jacob 'Art Outside In, Inside Out', essay
'Perschke's uncanny ability to conceive a tight and tense fit for RedBall, the contrast between the bright red sphere and the white Meier facade, with its perky geometry and pretensions to modernist rationalism, gave RedBall a particular humor. I personally felt a sort of spoof was at hand.'
Jeffrey Swartz, Barcelona Curator

Kurt Perschke's RedBall Project

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