More on hanging pieces.
What is the purpose of hanging stuff from the ceiling? I've asked myself as this installation seems to morph on a weekly basis. Hanging a work using transparent filament makes it float, making the experience surreal, approaching a dream quality. If anyone has other ideas, bring them on!
Searching the Net and my memory banks for references on hanging pieces, I notice that hanging artworks usually do not allow for viewers to walk around them. [Note: there are plenty of samples to contradict me, but I'm aware of those and I'll write about them in another post.] Perhaps that inaccessibility is what makes them all the more evocative.
In this search, I fell upon a post about a "provocative" suspended artwork by Bohyun Yoon, a South Korean artist who emigrated to the US and now lives and works in Richmond, VA.
In "Unity", the shadows cast by the suspension of dismembered doll parts show the human shape in various forms of sex play, sure to get a charge. Perhaps a primordial phase of this work, created in 2007, is "Structure of Shadow", another suspended work using dismembered figures in a multi-layered apartment building-like structure in the gallery space.
Of all his suspended pieces, Neighbors (2012) is perhaps the best developed, although it is reminiscent of work done in the Ruhrgebiet 20 years ago.
One of the revolving splash pages to his website is the cross-reflection of--you guessed it--young nude
Oh please. I didn't see a shred of technology implemented in any of the work, and only one piece may have employed it in its execution. Every installation appears to be hand-made and analog; and none of it explores technology's relationship to reality and illusion unless the mirror is on the technological cutting edge and the reflected image is a treatment of that relationship.
His most interactive piece, "The Glass Helmet" is a pair of rather handsome ewer-like handblown glass skull caps from which the wearer pours water into another's. This project is a little more compelling, but I don't see that any of his pieces delve into the evolution of human perception in the wake of technology.
Back to SIS: I await the bids from the LED suppliers. It becomes difficult to think about a piece without an approximation of what the final material will be; considering that I'm utilizing a commercial product to express something in a different, unintended purpose.
Then again, when I printed the images for SIS using lambdas, I also employed a commercial medium--the best one to make the large size prints I needed. We've changed the way we think about the image, its creation and its production, remembering that they were called "proofs" by the technicians who ripped them from the digital files.
What is the purpose of hanging stuff from the ceiling? I've asked myself as this installation seems to morph on a weekly basis. Hanging a work using transparent filament makes it float, making the experience surreal, approaching a dream quality. If anyone has other ideas, bring them on!
Searching the Net and my memory banks for references on hanging pieces, I notice that hanging artworks usually do not allow for viewers to walk around them. [Note: there are plenty of samples to contradict me, but I'm aware of those and I'll write about them in another post.] Perhaps that inaccessibility is what makes them all the more evocative.
In this search, I fell upon a post about a "provocative" suspended artwork by Bohyun Yoon, a South Korean artist who emigrated to the US and now lives and works in Richmond, VA.
One of the revolving splash pages to his website is the cross-reflection of--you guessed it--young nude
Oh please. I didn't see a shred of technology implemented in any of the work, and only one piece may have employed it in its execution. Every installation appears to be hand-made and analog; and none of it explores technology's relationship to reality and illusion unless the mirror is on the technological cutting edge and the reflected image is a treatment of that relationship.
His most interactive piece, "The Glass Helmet" is a pair of rather handsome ewer-like handblown glass skull caps from which the wearer pours water into another's. This project is a little more compelling, but I don't see that any of his pieces delve into the evolution of human perception in the wake of technology.
Back to SIS: I await the bids from the LED suppliers. It becomes difficult to think about a piece without an approximation of what the final material will be; considering that I'm utilizing a commercial product to express something in a different, unintended purpose.
Then again, when I printed the images for SIS using lambdas, I also employed a commercial medium--the best one to make the large size prints I needed. We've changed the way we think about the image, its creation and its production, remembering that they were called "proofs" by the technicians who ripped them from the digital files.
Congrats. I always love installations works. They are just amazing and i like :)
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