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Installation Art: beyond the Museum, beyond the Boundaries
Summary: Brief exploration of installation art in the context of interdisciplinarity, and theatre.
Millions of coloured dots on the floor, ceiling, and walls. Six large-format, black and white video projections of men and women in their everyday activities. Two chainsaws in a violent dance to destroy the pure walls of the gallery space. Two elevators ten times smaller than the average man. One schoolroom with one backboard and eight over-sized chairs. One unicorn lying in the center of a perfect, open area.
When one reads the above examples of installation art, no matter how educated they are, they are somewhat familiar with what each one entails. Perhaps it is because society is being exposed to a variety of unique, avant-grade practises; or perhaps a more-likely scenario would be because there has been an evident trend in the worlds of sculpture and architecture in the last forty years. But installation art is not sculpture or architecture, at least not entirely. In today's...
This section contains 3,106 words (approx. 11 pages at 300 words per page) |