We celebrate our collaborations.
We embrace projects with local & national artists. We strive to create an environment enriched by this community.
We aim to make space for a more expansive artistic experience at Hip Pocket- one that goes beyond the stage.
LAND ART, a collaboration with UTA Architecture students.
Led by Joshua Nason
October, 2021
Inspired by the prairie land of the rustic Hip Pocket Theatre, 12 site-specific land art installations created by 14 students enrolled in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Ricochet Garden
Chris Green, Brooklyn based artist.
Site-specific installation on a Texas gun range (part 2)
Ricochet Garden was constructed from the remaining debris of a demolished hand-gun range in Texas. With nine lengths of 3/16” aircraft cable added to the existing foundation, a suspension bridge spans the somewhat dangerous detritus (and occasional scorpions) to safely deliver visitors to the other side where motion sensors trigger lights inside a Zen garden raked into a mixture of pea gravel and 30 years worth of spent bullet casings. As visitors walk, their shuffling feet make a metallic music as they stir the thousands of hollow cartridges on the ground. A site originally designed solely for use as a containment chamber for ricocheting bullets is reclaimed as an area for contemplation and silence.
Media: Concrete, steel, salvage, aircraft cable, flood lights, motion sensors.
Completed: 2009
From 2005-2009, Hip Pocket invited NY based puppet artists to collaborate with the local DFW community to create site specific puppet pageants.
