Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s The Container Globe
Thursday, Feb 2, 20176 PM — Tuesday, Feb 28, 20178 PMEDT
| ORA Gallery, 51 7th Ave
New York, NY, USRelated
International design and architecture firm Perkins Eastman, along with The Container Globe, ARUP, M.Ludvik & Co., and ORA Gallery, are pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition “Never Mind the Bollocks: Here’s The Container Globe,” on view at ORA Gallery in NYC from February 2 - 28, 2017. The show’s opening reception will take place on Thursday, February 2, from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. The event is free and open to the public.
The Container Globe is the brain child of Angus Vail. A professed Shakespeare junky and long-time business manager for the band KISS, Vail conceived the idea for re-creating the Bard’s famous theater-in-the-round using surplus shipping containers back in 2014, and has been laying the ground work for the first of these constructions ever since. The first Container Globe is tentatively slated for Detroit, with plans for future Globes in New York, Denver, Cairo, Shenzhen, Tokyo, and Vail’s hometown of Wellington, New Zealand, among other cities. “Never Mind the Bollocks” illustrates this comprehensive and worthwhile endeavor with the use of artist renderings, video, diagrams, physical models, and testimonials from both design visionaries and Shakespearean scholars.
With a design and engineering team led by Nicholas Leahy AIA, LEED AP, Principal with Perkins Eastman, and Michael Ludvik, Structural Engineer with M. Ludvik & Co., respectively (the same team behind the TKTS booth in Times Square), The Container Globe is envisioned as a modular and mobile rendition of Shakespeare’s original Globe—built in 1599 using, incidentally, re-used parts from a previously deconstructed theater—comprising sixty-seven 20-foot containers, as well as scaffolding, wood flooring, greenhouse roofing panels, corrugated metal panels, and a translucent industrial mesh for the theater’s façade. The finished structure is estimated to be 20,166 gsf and have a capacity of 1,200 audience members.
The Container Globe and its components provide the ideal template for creating a modern-day, steampunk-esque rendition of William Shakespeare’s towering yet intimate theater experience, where host cities can stage authentic Shakespearean productions that are enlivened by audience participation, as well as music and other live events. According to Vail, “Making the Globe costefficient, green, and mobile is really the key, because conceivably we can bring Container Globes to any corner of the world, particularly to cities and neighborhoods where the performing arts may be lacking. Wherever surplus shipping containers are available, we can build a Globe.”
ORA Gallery is located at 51 7th Avenue, NYC. ORA was established by Giarna Te Kanawa in 2015 as an art, design and object gallery to showcase the talent of New Zealand-born artists. For more info visit www.oranygallery.com.
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