Sasha Dela

For Many Mini Residency in Copenhagen I mailed a spinning disco ball to Koh-i-noor as a gift. The disco ball has been used at Skydive during openings, musical performances and celebrations. In the past year I have become interested in the formal properties of disco balls. Through their mirrored surface, they reflect their environment completely and translate it into solid spherical form. This is how I think of a community of artists in a specific location; they create a bubble of optimism and a space for artistic exchange through a community, however they also reflect, react to and recreate the metropolis they inhabit.

For me the disc ball is a symbol of optimism, group participation and also of celebration surrounding the artist-run space.  Although I was not able to travel to Copenhagen, I wanted to share this with the community at Koh-i-noor, and to acknowledge our vastly geographically seperated, however sometimes shared communities.  Koh-i-noor and Skydive have hosted the Many Mini Residency, and many of the same artists including Jonn Herschend, Sarrita Hunn and Ryan Thayer, and I’m sure many others.

I wish you much enjoyment of the spinning twin disco ball Koh-i-noor!