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Anya Gallaccio
Between thought and feeling

The children at the Kasterlinden Institute in Belgium suffer from visual, hearing and language impairments as well as autistic disorders. Scottish artist and Turner Prize nominee Anya Gallaccio created a particular work for the school's garden in response to the exclusion that affects these children: Between thought and feeling. The first proposals involved anatomical models of the complex inner ear, eye and throat canals that required advanced 3d modelling.

One year into the process Unfold was brought in to pick up the development of the project, this after the artist - who lives in California - attended the Data-Clay conference at the California College of the Arts where Unfold gave the keynote speech. Impressed by Unfold's approach towards interweaving digital technologies with traditional materials and processes, she asked us to develop the project from first concept sketches towards final installation.

Gallaccio's concept was built around surfacing the inner shapes of our organs connected to the senses: ear, nose, mouth; and enlarging those so they become spaces for kids to explore with their senses.

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June 10th 2017
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Between thought-and feeling
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Between thought
and feeling

Detail
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Detail

Playing with sound
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Playing with sound

Welding
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Welding

Inside support structure
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Inside support structure

Inside support structure
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Inside support structure

Inside support structure
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Inside support structure

Engineering drawings
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Engineering drawings

Anya Gallaccio mockup
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Anya Gallaccio mockup

Anya Gallaccio drawing
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Anya Gallaccio drawing

Ideation
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Ideation

3D MRI reconstruction
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3D MRI reconstruction

MRI based 3d geometry
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MRI based 3d geometry

Unfolding panels
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Unfolding panels

Ribbon panel option
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Ribbon panel option

Triangulated vs ribbon paneling
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Triangulated vs ribbon paneling