In their Beacon studio, twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn house their massive installation Big Bambú. Utilizing over 2,000 bamboo poles, the artists have created an extraordinarily intricate network system that bridges architecture and performance. The installation continues to evolve and adapt in the vein of a living, self-healing organism as the work takes on a life of its own, rather than a static creation directly from the artist.

According to the Starn brothers, Big Bambú is connotative of an autonomous, spontaneous, self-governing, disorganized network responding to itself to better navigate the environment. “It represents me – in that I am who I was, and, I am completely different than I was when I was a little boy,” Doug Starn writes.

Click here to view Big Bambú on facebook.

Click here to read the New York Times Magazine feature on the Big Bambú.

Click here to view the Starn brothers in Aperture magazine, issue 175.

Big Bambú will be open to visitors the 4th weekend in August  from 11AM to 4PM.

Should you plan to visit, kindly e-mail at: bb@starnstudio.com
Starn Studio Beacon (former Tallix Foundry)
310 Fishkill Ave
Beacon, NY 12508

Tags: Aperture magazine, Big Bambú, Doug Starn, Mike Starn, Starn brothers

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