This temporary installation by Italian firm, Pierandrei Associati was exhibited in Milan for Tecno, a company specializing in office furniture that seeks to achieve a balance between art, and design as well as the technological and emotional side. This traveling space was designed in a way to provide the user with an emotional and personal spacial experience while speaking to the evolution of the Tecno brand.

The installation, titled “Ack?…are you there?” is made up of two cavernous spaces made of over a thousand tubes in two sequential spaces, one containing tubes of bamboo and the other of metal. The tubes all hang in varying lengths atop real grass to keep the user always grounded in the earth while moving through the tubes.

From Yatzer about the name, “‘ACK?’ – is a signal used in computing to indicate acknowledgement of receipt of a packet, it is also a common exclamation of surprise but it especially is the title of the installation that represents the vision of the Milanese practice Pierandrei Associati for which the human space is no longer characterized by a rational juxtaposition of components but by a logic of an evolutionary growth which allows organic and opened schemes that are customizable in unique configurations.”

The result for the user is an unpredictable space, moving through a sea of moving collumns as light and shadow play on the surfaces of the materials and the ground. The flexible space allows for a different experience for each person as they push their way through secretive and open areas, moving along and meeting up with others and sharing a moment of connection in moving together through this dynamic experience. The shapes and colors dance around those moving through the space mixed with sound as the wood and metal hit each other like life-size wind chimes.

In some areas markers appear, a small gesture encouraging people to leave their own personal mark on the space. They are allowed to do the unthinkable of writing on the art in any way they desire. This creates a more intimate feeling with the installation and they leave feeling as though they’ve left something behind, a basic human desire that usually goes unfullfilled but here in this playful world is embraced.

images via yatzer

Below is a video of moving through the installation from Tecno…