Installation Art – Web Research
Installation Art was seen as collectively bringing all the different types of media together and creating one amazing piece of installation art. Installation art is a piece performance for the gallery space in which it is going to be placed/exhibited in, the piece of art work performs rather than the artist. It is a piece where the audience/visitors can interact with it and get involved, so that it gets the visitors included and active towards the piece of work.
All different types of media are used to create a piece of installation art such as light, sound, video, electronic images etc, this then means involvement from the visitors is vital and is more than just looking at a static image. How the installation art is seen and the reaction from the visitors all depends on the involvement of them and how they view a piece of art.
Nam June Paik
In 1958 John Cage had inspirational ideas about music and performance, this led Paik to think about how he could experiment with sounds and his compositions. Throughout this stage, Paik got involved with the Neo-Dada Artists, this was known as Fluxus, this included artist like Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono and Wolf Vostell.
The artists became known for their ‘do-it-yourself’ attitude to creative activity. In 1961 the first Fluxus event was formed at the AG gallery in New York, followed by many festivals in Europe in 1962. There were no specific rules or ideas of Fluxus but it was seen as an attitude rather than a movement, accident and chance played a large part in installation art and humour was also an important part of it.
This type of medium opened up many ideas and thoughts for Paik and his work, as it was a way of showing everyday objects in a different form using sound and lighting and wanted to get new/ out of the ordinary reactions from the viewers.
Fluxus
The movement known as ‘Fluxus’ started off in the early 1960’s in New York, artists grouped together centred around John Cage and created/ developed ‘Anti-Art’. Fluxus staged a sequence of festivals in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, London, New York and Paris, there were successful festivals which shown Avant Garde style of performance, which created excitement for the viewers and visitors of them. The artist which played a large part in the Fluxus movement festivals included Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono and Wolf Vostell and Nam June Paik.
‘The movement, which still continues, played an important role in the opening up of definitions of what art can be.’
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Above (Top): Family of Robot: Mother (left) and Family of Robot: Father (right) (1986), single channel video sculptures with vintage television and radio castings and monitors; color, silent; mother: 78x61.5x20.75 inches
Above (Bottom) Family of Robot: Hi tech baby (1986). Single channel video sculpture with television casing, thirteen monitors, and aluminium structure, color, silent, 52.5x37.8 inches.
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| Electronic Superhighway: Continental US (1995). Forty seven channel and closed circuit video installation with 313 monitors, neon, and steel structure; color, sound, approx. 15x32x4 feet |
Work in Focus: Zen for film 1964:-
In this piece, Paik work in run on a continuous loop through a projector, all the viewers will see is a blank white screen, the light projected from the lamp illuminating specs of dust and impurities on the film every so often. This was Paiks answer/result to Robert Rauschenberg’s work, in which white canvases and only light and shadow from the environment there were in was seen on them. This type of work is revealing the materials natural qualities and nothing more.
‘Zen is also concerned with being aware of life around you. It is about experiencing each moment without letting memories or thoughts get in the way- seeing, feeling, touching, smelling and hearing.’
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