Giant Steps - A Project In Movement

By playing with chaos-movement-transformation-structure, this installation creates an ambiance that places its viewer directly in a situation of vulnerability, experiencing a lack of visibility. We do not see much from the inside for we lack a sense of perspective. From a distance and from above, we become informed spectators and we can see the picture as a whole; the big picture.

This event is a 'first step' in the larger international Giant Steps� project by Suisse based artist, Mr. Viliam Mauritz. He plans to produce similar installations in a variety of locations around the world. We have agreement in principle on the feasibility of the next step in our project in Switzerland, Paris (France) and Peru.

The following is a brief description of the 'First Step' that will take place on October 10th and 11th, 2015 on the tidal sands of Sandgate beach, Brisbane Australia.

Giant Steps� is a large-scale outdoor Art installation. It is a construction of two giant-sized foot prints; each 'footprint' measuring 100 metres long, 40 metres wide and 3.8 metres high and will be constructed by placing 380 prepared bamboo poles, in the tidal sands of Sandgate in Brisbane, at low tide.

The public will be able to walk between the bamboo poles, without having any concept of the form taking shape, and how it looks from above. This creates a lack of visibility experience because it is a seemingly random form or indeed, chaotic. At high tide, the water will hide the bottom third of the bamboo but the 'foot prints' will remain visible above the water and they will appear to be floating. The image of the Artwork will change as the tides ebb and flow. The installation at Sandgate will stay in place for two days and then will be de-constructed.

Giant Steps� allows us to shift our ways of seeing. It focuses our gaze on the beautiful natural environment of northern Moreton Bay at Sandgate, and invites us to participate in and witness the making of a universal symbolic structure in large scale. It symbolises human presence and it invites us to see how a large scale impact is developed, piece by piece, giving us a way of 'seeing the whole picture' from above. The event will be filmed from above and projected onto large screens onshore.