Lecture 3: Expressionism of Art | 'Inversion'
- LOW HUI YIH ~ 1001540522
- Feb 3, 2016
- 2 min read
Installation art
Installation art is an artistic genre of 3-dimensional works of mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time. What makes installation art different from sculpture or other traditional art forms is that it is a complete unified experience, rather than a display of separate, individual artworks. It focus on how the viewer experiences the work and the desire to provide an intense experience for them is a dominant theme in installation art.
“A picture is a poem without words”
by Horace
How you feel while looking at this "black hole"?
My answer will be curiosity. Did you ever want to just “zoom” in to the hole and see what is happening inside?
Inversion Tunnel House by Havel Ruck Projects
Inversion tunnel house was done by Havel Ruck Projects (Dan Havel and Dean Ruck). Havel Ruck Projects is an artist collaborative that works in public and quasi-public environments to repurpose architectural structures and remnants of no perceived market value into works of art. By reorganizing the physical construction of unremarkable spaces and places, their interventions bring attention and recognition to underappreciated and ordinary buildings and their histories.
Others projects done by
Havel Ruck Projects
Inversion Tunnel House
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck turned a to-be-torn-down house into an art installation known as ‘Inversion’. Using recycle boards from the outside of the houses they created a large funnel-like vortex running between the two that ends in a small hole in an adjacent courtyard. The building and adjacent one have been used for exhibition space and art classes for over 30 years and were torn down in 2005 shortly after this "goodbye installation" so unfortunately this place doesn't exist anymore.
Entrance Tunnel Exit
It’s a cool effect particularly for those who always wanted to experience a black hole without the whole ‘being crushed to a quantum singularity’ end result.
Emotional expressions
(zoom out)
This Funnel-like or tunnel vision that narrowing the field of view (zoom out) is an incredible and beautiful installation by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished. A feeling of curiosity is created and attracted a lot of people attention and come towards it. Everyone can experience it themselve in this "inversion tunel". Dan Havel and Dean Ruck had design and constructed something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden wrap zone. In my opinion, curiosity may led people to or experience something new. Therefore, we should not afraid of trying something new because we might learnt during the whole process.
Zoom out, and don't be afraid to see the big picture.
Normally, human always overlooking what they have to focus on what they haven’t. Most people end up cheating on others and themselves because they pay more attention to what they’re missing, rather than what they have. Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, think about what you have that everyone else is missing.
"Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide – look wider still."
by Robert Baden Powell