Haque has a special form of entertainment. He started with the Sky Ear in Freiburg (2003), then the Open Burble of Singapore (2006) and the Burble with which he opened the London Fashion Week (2007) in the British capital.
This year in Barcelona, Haque has developed a Project, half installation, half-action with the shape of a floating cloud that measured about 25 feet high by 14 wide. The cloud formed by coloured balloons with a chip inside that was activated with any remote control, thrilled the audience who, through a homemade contraption, thus became street artists.
Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Media of the Generalitat and the Experimentàlia team, that is led by who was the didactic-scientific presenter of the program The club of TV3, Dani Jimenez, this experiment began in the Arts Centre Santa Monica and culminated in the Plaza de Colon.
Through scientific workshops that are directly related to the proposed activity, Jimenez and his team presented a thematic collage covering remote activation devices, lighting, aerial pictures, mobile, and transverse waves and polarisers ... The experiment, baptized as "molecular globoflexia", surprised both young and old.
The resulting large mesh, a structure with a carbon fibre base, helium-filled balloons and sensors, initially proposed by Usman Haque, crowned the dark sky of Barcelona with light and colour.
Usman Haque designs complex and groundbreaking architectural structures, with simple geometric shapes and near-natural forms, such as the hexagon.
Control.Burble.Remote (controls, whispers and remotely activates) is a technical player device, the LED, which in recent times is revolutionizing the ways of illuminating the spaces. Already integrated in traffic lights, information panels, auto headlamps and flat television screens, the LED provides Light with extraordinary energy efficiency and threats to retire the incandescent lighting of more than 130 years of history. It is activated by infrared signals.
A groundbreaking architect
Haque teaches architecture at the Bartlett School in London, at the same time he designed the facades of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the English capital, the Hillside Gallery, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, also in Tokyo and the Centre for the Arts of Plymouth (United Kingdom).
He says he feels more "artist" than "architect"... In fact, he has no title of architect or license to run plays, but he teaches architecture "discovering the architects trained as such with new techniques to further their discipline, under the powerful influence of new technologies". In the eighties and nineties he conducted advanced theoretical works of architecture on paper, models, galleries and books. Now, he focuses his creativity in interactive installations, and performances like that of Barcelona. More in www.haque.co.uk.
