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The Boat Project
May. 3rd, 2012 11:20 pmI just love this idea so much...
The Boat Project is an art work by Lone Twin commissioned as part of the Cultural Olympiad, a series of cultural events scheduled to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic Games. The boat is a 30 foot seafaring yacht built entirely from wooden objects donated by members of the public. The only condition the artists placed on the donations was that they had to mean something to the person donating the item.
The boat itself is a thing of real beauty and the range of objects people have donated is both moving and astonishing; there are mundane every day objects such as clothes pegs and hangers, children's toys, musical instruments, sports equipment, bits of furniture and remnants of older ships.
Two planks from HMS Victory and HMS Warrior were donated by the Royal Navy and there are even a few bits of HMS Invincible there, which were salvaged by a trawlerman and amateur diver.
Every single artefact can be identified by coordinates on the hull and the project will also publishing a book telling the story of all the personal items that make up the boat. You can see some of them on The Boat Project's fascinating website here.
The boat is now complete and will be launched from Elmsworth on the 7th of May, after which she'll undertake her maiden voyage along the south cost of England, stopping at various ports along the way. A guide book with a full itinerary of events can be downloaded from the project website. If any of my southern f-listies happen to be in the vicinity when she comes in, I hope you'll have a chance to see her :)
Links
The Boat Project, official website
State of the ark, picture gallery from the Guardian.
Lone Twin's ship that hockey sticks built, article from the Guardian
The Boat Project is an art work by Lone Twin commissioned as part of the Cultural Olympiad, a series of cultural events scheduled to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic Games. The boat is a 30 foot seafaring yacht built entirely from wooden objects donated by members of the public. The only condition the artists placed on the donations was that they had to mean something to the person donating the item.
The boat itself is a thing of real beauty and the range of objects people have donated is both moving and astonishing; there are mundane every day objects such as clothes pegs and hangers, children's toys, musical instruments, sports equipment, bits of furniture and remnants of older ships.
Two planks from HMS Victory and HMS Warrior were donated by the Royal Navy and there are even a few bits of HMS Invincible there, which were salvaged by a trawlerman and amateur diver.
Every single artefact can be identified by coordinates on the hull and the project will also publishing a book telling the story of all the personal items that make up the boat. You can see some of them on The Boat Project's fascinating website here.
The boat is now complete and will be launched from Elmsworth on the 7th of May, after which she'll undertake her maiden voyage along the south cost of England, stopping at various ports along the way. A guide book with a full itinerary of events can be downloaded from the project website. If any of my southern f-listies happen to be in the vicinity when she comes in, I hope you'll have a chance to see her :)
Links
The Boat Project, official website
State of the ark, picture gallery from the Guardian.
Lone Twin's ship that hockey sticks built, article from the Guardian
