Megan and Murray McMillan

The Shape of Our Best Intentions, 2011

We will be debuting our new video installation, The Shape of Our Best Intentions, at the 2012 deCordova Biennial, which runs from January 23 to April 22. There’s no public opening, but there is a Members Preview Day that’s open to guests of the artists — all you have to do is give them our name at the gate. We’ll also be giving an artists’ talk on Saturday, March 10 at 2pm. Here’s a link to the full list of events for the exhibition. Hope to see you at one of them.

2012 deCordova Biennial Jan. 23rd thru Apr.22nd

Artist Discussion: Artistic Collaboration
Antoniadis & Stone, Megan and Murray McMillan
Saturday, March 10, 2 pm at deCordova

We’re pleased to announce that our current project, The Shape of Our Best Intentions (which was previously referred to under the working title Flying Room) will open as a video installation this January at the 2012 Biennial at the DeCordova Museum in Boston (Lincoln).

Our lead actors will step out into the water, grab the camera using the two handles, lift it up and out of the tray and place into a similar tray installed on a crane that will move away from the structure, while the structure is spinning.

Director of photography Kieran Delaney and his assistant John create some quick lighting tests.

This is moment we’ve been working towards: releasing the supports and seeing how the room hangs and moves. We were delighted to find out that it was surprisingly stiff and moved better than expected.

Our assistant JR Uretsky and RWU research assistant Chris Capozzi prepare to install the custom built rotating mechanism, which features 3 plates of quarter inch steel and 16 ball transfer units. It took us about 8 hours to drill the 12 inch and a half holes through it.

The guide wheels are being placed to determine measurements. Whenever possible, we prefer to take measurements off of real materials and objects over trusting theoretical math–too often we forget something when it’s on paper only.