Marisa Morán Jahn

Picos/ FLOAT Guggenheim Late Shift Event

My Role: Studio Assistant, participating student

Highlights include, rapid prototyping, installation support, event production, volunteer coordination, fabrication support and research

Late Shift: Float
The Guggenheim
Thursday, March 21, 2024 6–8 pm EDT

I had the unique opportunity to work with Marisa Moran Jahn to produce this late shift event as part of a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at the New School and the Academic Engagement department at the Guggenheim.

Making Process, Rapid Prototyping for Interactive Installations

“In this newest Late Shift program, Jahn and her students will fill the Guggenheim’s iconic rotunda with special installations activating the museum’s architecture through playful aerial choreographies. During the program, visitors will have the opportunity to participate in a miniature kite-making workshop before they are invited to watch the kites take flight down the Guggenheim’s spiral ramp! Celebrate the creativity of New York City’s young designers during this unique, hands-on event.”

“Arranged in three different configurations — a duet, a panel conversation, and an altar — the “picos” made from fans, kitchen trashbags, and tape seem to dance, squabble, and duel each other. Visitors are invited to interact in these humorously subversive rituals.”

Marisa Moran Jahn

Links

“Join us to see ephemeral performative-sculptures, make a mini-kite to fly at the Museum,, and participate in the spiral procession”

The New School

“the installations, workshop, and procession are the outcome of Kite City, a design and rapid prototyping course taught at Parsons in fall 2023 by Jahn and product designer Neva Kocic”

MIT Art Culture Technology  Review

“fill the Guggenheim’s rotunda with special installations with playful aerial choreographies..”

Guggenheim

Team!

“Created by Marisa Morán Jahn in partnership with the Guggenheim Academic Engagement Program, curatorial collaborator Amy Rosenblum Martín, Co-teacher Neva Kocic, and students from Parsons School of Design: Madison Jaet, Renee Neme, Riley Stark, Isabella Tedesco, James Terrazas, Ivor Zeng. Special Thanks: Em Flaire.” - Marisa Moran Jahn

Photos: (by Filip Wolak (c) Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. and Madison Jaet for the photo to the left)."