Is it Science? Is it Engineering? Is it Music? Is it Sculpture? Is it Art? … Meet sculptor Tim Hawkinson and his strange, weird, mechanically driven kinetic and audio sculptures! Meet for an open discussion regarding Tim Hawkinson’s oddball/genius artworks on Wednesday between 1 -2 pm in a Google Meet. Link to be shared in Google Classroom.
Tim Hawkinson tinkers with everyday materials to build surprising mechanical art works. “I guess it comes from early on in childhood, a fascination with moving parts and sort of the magical,” he suggests.
In his studio, Hawkinson explains how he used gears, switches, nozzles, buckets, and pie tins to build a drumming machine that captures random drips of rain, amplifies them, and organizes them into music. “It’s not even electronics. I don’t know what it is,” he admits. One of Hawkinson’s largest projects, Überorgan, is an inflatable installation in a space the size of a football field. For a version of the artwork the artists created a score for the organ using old church hymns.