Post 3...Proposal update...Semester 2

Initial concept.... land sculpture.

Site-specific...’an artist’s intervention in a specific locale, creating a work that is integrated with its surroundings and that explores its relationship to the topography of its locale... and to restructure the viewer’s conceptual and perceptual experience of that locale through the artist’s intervention’

My initial project idea in my negotiated learning plan was to creative a large metal land sculpture to be sited in an area around the Sunderland University campus. However, as originally stated in my plan, the learning and testing out ideas of sculpture using different media and materials would determine this outcome. Therefore, although I have been able to create manageable sized sculptural pieces from metal, the realisation of limitations in making a large scale sculpture: scale, time, resources etc, have informed how my project will now progress.

I have continued with interest in exploring what can be identified as repeated themes and motives behind influential and inspiring examples of site-specific art and installation.

Installation...”presupposes an embodied viewer whose senses of touch, smell and sound are as heightened as their sense of vision” (1)

After contemplation on my work to date and own viewing preferences etc, I continued to progress in this project and thought about how I wanted this project to manifest. While the site is a central component of installation art, in some instances it may not be particular to the artwork; therefore the artwork can be reconfigured or reassembled.

The mode of production and presentation in an installation prioritises the work’s reflexive identity. By achieving, first and foremost, that the viewer is not a passive spectator but an active agent; is the emphasis of my project.

In view of this, my aim is to now create an immersive installation in the Shaun Project Space, Priestman building. My love of construction will see me assemble on site an installation consisting of 30, 8ft plastic pipes. The installation of scale will be viewed from different perspectives; around and inside, the viewer can experience and engage the artwork. Luminous lighting, mirror and reflective wall panels will also create an immersive experience.

My Painting’s to depict the installation...

‘Installation view-room with sculpture

Acrylic, spray paint, on canvas.

120x90x3cm

’Untitled’

Acrylic, spray paint, china graph pencil, on canvas. 60x60x2cm

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”Art, like theatre, opens up spaces where illustrations can become happenings - ones which thrive on awareness of their simulation”. (2)

In her 2004 publication, Miwon Kwon examines the notion of the phenomenological, discursive and the physical in relation to ‘site’. (3)

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Additional interest/research...

Olafur Ellison ‘The Weather Project’ 2003

Installation in Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London.

Mono frequency lights, projection foil, haze machine, mirror foil, aluminium, and scaffolding. Seeing differently... Eliasson explores the boundaries between nature, art, and technology. Large scale, immersive installation.

1. Activate space and context.

2. Stretch the work in time, whereby the installations character becomes that of situation and process.

3. Phenomenological focus on the viewer’s bodily and subjective experience, and on the temporal aspects of reception.

I have since extended my interest in installation and site specific artwork, through reading and research on this subject for my HAD231 Module essay; ‘ Temporality of site specificity and the indirect experience’.

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Updated...... Due to the suspension at University and the need for isolation in light of the Corona outbreak, an alternative live outcome for this project has been proposed. (See concept post)

(1) Bishop, C., 2005. Installation art: A Critical History. Michigan: Routledge.

(2) Nollert, A., 2004. Performative Installation (Catalogue), Snoeck/Siemens Art Program.

(3)Kwon, M., 2004. One place after another: site-specific art and locational identity / Miwon Kwon. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England: MIT Press.

https://olafur Eliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK101003/the-weather-project