Ring and packaging

Posters

Website

Design of the rings, packaging and promotional material for a distributed performance as part of the Cork 2005 programme.

Commissioned by Cork 2005 (European Capital of Culture) Iris saw the distribution of almost 10,000 stainless steel rings throughout Cork in 2005. Each ring is a symbol of an expanded community; an invitation to actively engage with each other, acknowledging potential in seemingly ordinary encounters. Each Iris ring came with a set of five simple, written instructions, inviting the wearer of a ring to show a physical or mental response whenever he or she meets someone wearing the same ring. Here, the choreographers’ work was centred on facilitating a social dynamic. The work created; the human patterns of being and moving, become a choreographic work at once ephemeral and playful, the ring becoming the key to a world of invisible links.

Client: City of Cork (2004/2005)
Concept, choreography: Michael Klien, Davide Terlingo
Rings, design: Rafal Kosakowski
Photography: Michael Dürr
Precision casting: O.ST. Feinguss
Programming: Nevada Test Site