Tuesday evening art performance

Maria Blaisse is an artist designer who works as a material scientist spending the last forty years discovering nature's structural systems. Starting in 1985 with the innertube of a cartire (a toroide). She first made incisions on several parts of the rubberinnertube, and got hooked on the endless potential opening up in form and movement. Working from the 3rd to the 3rd dimension mostly making forms for the body, hats and costumes for dance performances internationally.

In 2005 she applied this research if form and movement in a bias gauze structure, and the same forms, from the previous years emerged, small scale, now starting from a 2 dimensional bias structure into the 3rd dimension. She created one basic design system by which all forms can be constructed and each form has the potential to change form again. 3 years later in 2008 she translated her findings in gauze, into bamboo structures, body size and continued her research by improvising with dancers and musicians. In the film ‘moving meshes’ 3 forms, the toroid, the sphere and the oloide are each constantly changing form, and totally interactive with the body.

While the structures are transforming glympses of possibilities are passing by for applications ,in design, fashion and architecture. Yet the form stays totally autonomous. Presently she is engaged in expanding one of her bamboo structures the oloide to the scale of architecture, with the Ketelfactory in Schiedam for the XL exhibition april 2016. She published a book on this research > the Emergence of Form, with NAI publishers The book was nominated in 2014 by Filaf > Festival International de Livre d’Art et du Film, as one of the 9 best artbooks worldwide.
www.mariablaisse.com