Pods are strategically placed community centers throughout our six hundred acre Bonnaroo campground with unique, interactive, and ongoing art. In the spirit of a community center this is your space to gather and to create. Many of this year’s artists were organized in collaboration with the Knoxville Museum of Art.

Your interaction is the key to the success of the art at the pods. Visit all of the pods and interact in different ways from pulling to writing to sewing to trading to messaging. Join the fun! Make art happen at Bonnaroo 2010!
  
Pod artist BIRDHOUSE featured at POD 4
Banneroo with the Birdhouse
In honor of Bonnaroo’s temporal and vibrant community The Birdhouse will be piecing together a large banner from patches donated by Bonnaroo patrons. You can contribute to the project with your old cloth and clothing as well as by sewing on site. Bring any unwanted clothing or cloth to the Clean Vibes Trading Post or join us at our pod site where we can help you cut and sew your fabric into the banner. We hope that as the years progress, this banner will act as a visual chronology of the Bonnaroo community. The Birdhouse is a collectively-run community space in Knoxville, TN dedicated to supporting the work of emerging artists, musicians, and activists.

HOW TO BE PART OF THIS INSTALLATION!
You can contribute to the project with your old cloth and clothing AND by sewing on site. Bring unwanted clothing or cloth to the Clean Vibes Trading Post or join us at our pod where we can help you cut and sew your fabric into the banner.

Pod artist MATT HALL featured at POD 3
DIS_ASSEMBLY LINE
What if for three days the attendees were forced to deal with their
waste? What if the trash became a physical obstruction? Can we turn obstructions in useful structures? Can the same walls that hold us back be re-configured to create seating, shelter, and space? OBSTRUCTURES seeks to blur the boundaries between obstruction and structure, observer and participator- gathering, cataloging and assembling massive amounts of material waste and converting it into modular and repetitive units that are useful, fun, or both.

This field operation of ordered waste products re-configured will act as both a place of rest and shelter, and also as a graph to illustrate the amount of waste accumulated and sorted by material, color, transparency, and type. Through scale and repetition intentional order will be created to re-contextualize the trash as use-able material. It is intended that this installation will be both a spectacle and beacon for the pod at day and night through the use of the accumulated transparent waste as a filter for both artificial and natural light.

Pod artist SARAH SHEBARO
Disco Shelter Pod featured at POD 5
Inspired by the look and sound of dance clubs and a love for all things analog, this project will construct a glittering shelter made from various non-traditional items. This tent-like space will provide shade from the sun during the day and a space to experiment with light and sound at night. Partially built from materials YOU bring; the Disco Shelter will reach 20 feet high, allowing small groups and individuals to enjoy a space unlike any other at the festival. One half of this structure will be composed only of audio and VHS tape draped over and around a wall of lightweight netting.

HOW TO BE A PART OF THIS INSTALLATION!
There is currently not enough tape to complete the Disco Shelter. Rather than waste resources buying and disassembling new tapes, we are counting on you to contribute by bringing any and all kinds of unwanted cassette and/or VHS tapes to the Disco Shelter Pod. There you will work with the installation team to complete the structure. Unfortunately you will not be able to reclaim your tapes, as they will be disassembled to make up the wall of the tent. Bring tapes you no longer need. Bring tapes your friends no longer need. All materials will be reused post-Bonnaroo, (in another installation), or recycled after the festival.

Message Board Pod featured at POD 6
This Pod, consisting of a maze-like, 8 foot tall network of fence, will allow you a space to write messages, leave notes and drawings and construct images with refuse or other materials found on the campsite.  Think in terms of a large-scale text message, meets bulletin board, meets gridded piece of paper. Bring tape, string, empty cups and bottles and write, draw, and or leave a message! Initially this project was thought of in terms of a site to post ‘missed connections’, notes, and an alternative to cell phone use; a wall to leave a note for your friend(s), letting them know where you will be. Now the goal of the Message Board is to provide a space for communication, creativity and the dialogue produced by continuous interaction.

Pod artist JACOB STANLEY
Analog Hub Pod featured at POD 9
Analog Hub is a large cave of blackboards to write and draw on. It will tap into the creative community at Bonnaroo in essence it is an immersive messaging board system. Looking back on the days before cell phones and texting, we communicated with the written word. I want to remember those days and encourage collaboration to change and alter the sculpture’s surface. This collective approach will yield a more insightful and creative work than anyone of us could have created on his or her own.

Tensile Tent Pod featured at POD 8
Tensile Tent is a huge sunshade made of two sheets of fabric parallel to the ground. People will activate the sculpture by using a system of pulleys to move the weights attached to different points on the fabric. This transforms the seemingly static flat sculpture into an interactive game. The more of you who gather to alter the canopy, the more intricate forms can be created, like a v-shaped trough or any number of topographical shapes. Come see this interactive moving landscape.

Pod artist THEA ALVIN featured in VIP
I love to recycle stuff into art. most of the things I build are made from donated or recaptured things around my home in Vermont. I'm a stone mason, but I am not rich, so my need to create is fulfilled with free or cheap stuff. We're going to explore the beauty of an aluminum can. flatten em out and bring them with you, we'll make sculptures with rivet guns and patterns all over the place. Bring soda, beer and juice cans with you to Bonnaroo and we'll make something big. If there are not enough cans, then, we'll play with wood or shopping carts, or sticks, or rocks. Check out the possibilities: www.myearthwork.com

Pod artists JASON S. BROWN and ELIZABETH SCOFIELD featured at PODS 1 and 7
For this year’s festival, Jason S. Brown and Elizabeth Scofield have designed and are fabricating two art pod projects combining play and utility in a colorful garden of sculptural forms and sun shades. Elements will include 16-foot tall giant blades of nylon grass, large-scale synthetic flowers, and odd plant-like shapes inspired by nature. They will also create large fabric canopy shades that will provide shelter from the sun and heat. Their crew of pod volunteers will encourage participants to dance, picnic, nap, and frolic amidst the whimsical forms.