Dismantling DAI stand at Kunstvlaai
Whist building the huge green archive for the Kunstvlaai the other week, we had been under the impression that it would end up in a skip afterwards. Accordingly, not much attention had been given to dismantling it in such a way that it could be assembled once again.
However, there arose the possibility that it may (or may not) make another appearance, which meant some hasty arranging of what to do with it. Everything had to be cleared out starting at 6pm today (Sunday), which basically involved trying to get the thing separated into the pieces that it was in when it was built, cleaning off all the Vaseline which I had smeared on the moving parts (again without thought for what would happen to it), and get it all loaded into a van. I would rather not have had to do all this since my dad has been visiting the past few days (on which more later), but since I built all the animation mechanisms I was worried that if I was not present it would be quite difficult to take apart.
We ended up having a big enough team though to be able to get everything dismantled, cleaned, and cleared up in a relatively short space of time. As it happened the van was late in arriving anyway, meaning that my earlier stressed state was in fact unnecessary.
Once it was all loaded up for transport to Daniëlle’s studio, I made my excuses and left; I have done more than my fair share of the work on this project!
