Images of the Installation Artists that we were recommended to look at

Richard Serra

Robert Smithson

Aeneas Wilder

Faith Wilding

Martin Creed

Mike Nelson

Joseph Kouths

Mike Kelley

Ilya Kabakov

Jospeh Beuys

Jim Lambie

Jenny Holzer

Fred Sandbeck

Mark Diano

Daniel Buren

Damien Hirst

Cornelia Parker

Lucy Gunning

Christo

Charles Simons

Rebecca Horn

Joseph Beuys

Bethen Huws



Mike Nelson

Christine Borland

Martin Boyce

Anya Gallacio

Installation workshop

With Harley, Jen, Karen, Sarah and Jenny.
Joined the group on the day of the presentation, for which they had chosen Aeneas Wilder. Videos of his constructions and subsequent destruction can be seen here (http://www.aeneaswilder.co.uk/video.html)








They chose a space in the Round Room in the Barnes and under the instruction of the brief chose a material no larger than a tennis ball, which was a ball of string. The proceeded to deconstruct the string, which held parallels in form with the room, both having circular properties, and harnessed and hooked the string onto parts of the room, connecting them with no more than the properties of the room, (a window ledge, the leg of a chair, a radiator pipe etc.) creating diagonals which redistributed the shapes within the room. A room based on the principle of the circle was cut into triangles and undefined geometric shapes. The quality of movement which had until then been flowing was no longer easily accessible, thus transforming the characteristic of the room and so too the meaning.

The final also reminded me of

Marcel Duchamp, Mile of String

1942, New York

'In 1942, Andre Breton organised a retrospective exhibition of Surrealist art in New York: First Papers of Surrealism. For the vernissage Marcel Duchamp created this installation – a gigantic web – called the Mile of String. He and Breton furthermore arranged for a number of children to ball in the room thereby making it very difficult for the guests to see the paintings.'



A room like this i.e. a gallery space, requires accessibility yet because it was a surrealist exhibition it seems entirely fitting that the space in which the work was exhibited should be inaccessible.

Term 2 Year Two - Installation

“Unlike traditional art works, Installation art has no autonomous existence. It is usually created for a particular space, exhibition or otherwise, and its meaning is dependent on site and witness.”

“Although the term ‘Installation art’ has become widely used it is still relatively non-specific. It refers to a wide range of artistic practices, and often overlaps with other interrelated areas including Fluxus, Earth Art, Minimalism, Video art, Performance art, Conceptual art and Process art. Site specificity, institutional critique, temporality, and ephemerality are issues shared by many practitioners of these genres.”

“Installation art is usually dependent on the configurations of a particular space or situation. Even if the same installation is remade in more than one location, it will not be exactly the same in two places, owing to the differences between spaces. The physical characteristics of the space have an enormous effect on the final product.” ‘From Margin to Centre, The Spaces of Installation Art.’ Julie H.Reiss.

I don't want to produce a quirk that I then call an artwork, that they then call a farce.

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I think I'd say fuck contemporary art because it is in all means a little bitch that knows its place is but a culmination of the regression of intelligent thought. It masters nothing, but constructs a vastness that excludes any real creation, in the hands of the artist, rather than the allowance of the elite to allow the unknowing folk who they now cater for, a feast of information, but a lack of knowledge. "I have seen" replaces "I now know" and we do not criticise this, for the sake that we may be unknown ourselves.

Why would they think my ego is small?