http://www.installationart.net/Chapter1Introduction/introduction01.html
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Walter de Maria's, Earth Room, first executed in the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, 1968. De Maria filled the gallery with soil to a depth of 56cm (22 inches)Pictured here is The New York Earth Room, 1977
http://www.earthroom.org/
In this reading, the roots of installation art are traced back to the 'tansgressive aesthetics' of Dada and Surrealism which also inspired radical avante garde art of the 1960's.
The ideas and values of these artforms emphasize issues of immersion and deconstruction of traditionalism. Walter de Maria's Earth Room models these concerns addressed in the reading:
Involvement between the viewer & the art by engagement of multiple senses. (2)
Activates the viewer to think. (2)
Uses non-traditional material. (2)
Integrates art with life-praxis, read personal account linked below. (4)
'Plays' with the institutional identity of the art gallery by transforming the space. (4)
Coulter-Smith argues that transgression or deconstruction are embodied by other movements, avante garde of early-mid 20th century and contemporary decontructive art respectively. A shift of meaning from transgression towards the idea of 'play' is credited to Jacques Derrida(1981) "who also introduce the term 'decontruction' into cultural theory." (4)
"Most installation artists play with that fabric[of the art gallery/museum] rather than trying to genuinely critique it...transgression has become a civilised activity to be protected and preserved by the art museum...installation art graphically illustrates the gallery-bound and socially segregated character of fine art at the turn of the millenium." Does this artform deconstruct deconstructionism? Coulter-Smith identifies the separation of art from life as a problem for deconstructive art to overcome. (5)
To read a personal account of The New York Earth Room go here:
http://homepages.nyu.edu/~aam259/text/earthrm.html
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