INTERACTIVITY

Serpent Mother is a highly kinetic participant controlled installation. The protective space that is created by the serpent around her egg encourages others to connect and interact with one another, turn inward for reflection or activate her fiery spirit. Audience members can make the serpent’s head and neck move from left to right, tilt up and down or make the jaws open and close using buttons that actuate the hydraulic cylinders responsible for these movements. An individual can initiate 10 different sequenced patterns for the 31 poofers or activate each “poofer”[1] via buttons or proximity sensors. The LEDs illuminating the body can fade in or out and change colors based on a participant’s heartbeat that is read by a sensor they touch. The freestanding ribs of the serpent can be moved by the participants’ interaction with them. Finally, Black Rock residents can operate stages of the fiery birth of the egg by pressing buttons that activate the liquid fuel bursts.

[1]Flaming Lotus lexicon for big fire bursts that we offer up for others to enjoy.