photography: BOUDICCA Sian Murphy & Thomas Whitehead courtesy of The Royal Opera House
Each Boudicca piece is personally titled, where do find inspiration for these names? Names are from the world that develop and educate them. The dreams of our past present and future. Honestly though sometimes it is plain and simple and direct, it depends on the time, the idea and the moment. You’ve experimented with science and technology, both with your perfume and your collections; is this important to you? Every day. Digital Technology has always been very important for us, learning how to write code and work in 3D. Lots of experiments with how to make image and how to re-examine our process. We seek knowledge from every avenue, be that within History or a totally new technological development, currently playing with a Kinect and 3D film – but also researching Etienne-Jules Marey and his beautiful Chronophotography. Making films and writing code – then dragging all these different time-frames into one process… …with a wish and a dream to be further involved with other creatives who we could collaborate with. Imagine being given that residency at MIT for example or work with the team at Honda or at AIST in Tokyo. With more at our fingertips we could involve technology daily but as technology moves so fast and that it’s an expensive game, we have begun to build homemade scanners and machines that swing between the ages from old to new technologies. This is exciting and experimental and we have only begun to use these, we began to feel that a new way for us to comprehend the image was to begin to understand the capture, the camera itself and the way to understand that, was to make the camera. You’ve recently returned from installing an exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago ‘Fashioning the Object’; can you tell us a little
more about this? Do you have plans for any further exhibitions in the near future? This is a moment where fashion within the framework of the museum should really be seen as the forerunner. A simple question and answer; an examination of 3 designers who are not owned or invested in or by European corporatism and with this comes the struggle or survival, but it is this survival that defines each of the brands and really shows with all its errors and all its possibilities of what each label still has to offer. It is the wealth of energy that comes from each room that we find again humbling to be part of... BOUDICCA is shown through film, the moving still with a few objects that seem to aid the defining of the film. It is a room of clues, keys, fragments that take you on a path through our history and our label. A collision of coincidences that revealed themselves only when the full exhibition was up; a cross referencing of data that still makes sense. Here Zoë Ryan the curator talks about the 3 designers and the exhibition. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKIBN8Y5f-M We are also seeing this exhibition possibly move to other cities, not as yet fully confirmed but Tel Aviv, Moscow, and we hope for Tokyo. On going we are in the middle of new ideas, new thoughts, new struggles as the liquidity of all of our futures brings good and bad. How we manage and manoeuvre through this rapid, is exciting and breaking new paths open for us. Listening and looking out for the invisible to arrive. www.platform13.com Boudicca pieces for sale: http://www.avenue32.com/designers/boudicca/Storefront.html Boudicca Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Boudicca/8683694273 Boudicca Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/#!/BoudiccaWord