Jeanne-Claude and Christo were a married couple of environmental artists. The aim of their art is to create works of joy and to convey beauty in familiar landscapes, and to make us see familiar sights in different ways. Their work was also to bring communities together.
Some of their most famous pieces include ‘Wrapped Coast’, where they wrapped the entire coast of Little Bay in Sydney, Australia with synthetic fabric. This required 130 workers and 170,000 hours worth of work. Initially, authorities resisted their efforts but once completed the reactions were largely positive.
They did a very similar project called the ‘Running Fence’, which like ‘Wrapped Coast’ was essentially a fabric fence, made from steel posts and steel cables, which ran through fields into the sea. The fence was five and a half meters high and 40km long. For the project, fifty-nine families and ranchers needed to be persuaded for their permission so Christo and Jeanne-Claude hired nine lawyers. Even though they did this, they were fined sixty thousand dollars because they didn’t get the permission for the coastal region.
This is how it relates to my unit of ‘Interaction’, as they should have requested permission to complete their project, even though they did consult all the ranchers via lawyers etc.
The majority of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s work included wrapping famous landmarks and landscapes in fabric, and their next project was the same theme, as they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin with more than 100,000 meters squared of fireproof polypropylene fabric.
To do this they had to write explanatory letters to every single one of the 662 delegates of the relevant members of parliament, and interact with them via phonecalls and negotiations. This is how it relates to our ‘Interaction’ project.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
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