Installation art is a form of art in which an entire room or similar space is treated as a work of art to be entered and experienced. It is a placing of a work of art in a specific location, usually for a limited time.
B. What materials are used installation art?
Any materials can be used in installation art. The main material is the actual space itself. This is what sets installation art apart from other kinds of work.
C. Why make installation art?
Installation art gives people a unique opportunity to experience art in a different way. They are able to enter the piece of work, walk around it, and explore it. It gives the viewer a different perspective to a piece of work than they normally get.
D. Which artist/installation did I find most interesting?
The most interesting installation art in my opinion was Thomas Hirschhorn's Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake. It just looks so crazy and out there and a really unique piece that really caught my eye and attention.
A. From the material reviewed, is there a inspiration piece that I feel a connection with?
None of the pieces I saw really had a connection with me not even my favorite one Jumbo Spoons and Big Cake.
B. What theme do I want to explore in my installation? Refer to your textbook if you need to review Themes of Art.
(Nature, Environment, Self, Mass Media, Consumerism, etc.)
I wanted to explore the theme of environment in my piece of installation art. I thought this was the most interesting theme to experiment with.
C. What materials will I use?
At first I wanted to use some metal rods with my piece but when I couldn't come across any in enough time I had to switch my material to paper.
D. Where will this installation be located and why?
I decided to put my installation inside an ice box. Since I couldn't find an ice box big enough for people to walk in to I used to shrink down my piece and use a smaller ice cooler. This also meant I had to proportion down my art piece as well.
My installation is entitled Why Can't We Be Friends and its media is paper. It is a person hanging on to a rope on the side of a snowy iced cliff and another person on top of the cliff looking down at him. I chose to put it inside an ice box as the environment because it is the best way to capture a somewhat snowy cliff in the summer in Buffalo. Although the actual environment is too small itself for a person to walk through, I believe that feeling the cold rush of air from the ice cooler as they were to peer down into it can give them a feeling of coldness and snow.
My thoughts were that this was the hardest art making project yet and it really took my awhile to think of what I wanted to do. I didn't have the materials readily available to me to make an actual installation piece but im hoping what I chose to do symbolizes enough what I was trying to achieve.
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