Tracing movement

Audio interview following a person around the Dunedin Public Art Gallery observing the behaviour and interaction with different art and exhibitions.

Movement around an exhibition - Stop Motion

This visual stop motion podcast demonstrates the process I went through to create a model which illustrated the movement of a particular person around an art gallery. The movement is traced by a marker and the colour on the walls represents where they stopped and took in the art on the walls. The audio podcast that is uploaded above is a recorded informal interview of the person who I was observing walking around the gallery which relates to this visual podcast. I wanted to show the process of the observation I took and the path in which the participant took and thought stop motion was the best way to demonstrate this. After further interviews I will add more paths to this model to show the different ways people behave in an exhibition environment and see if the founding principles of exhibition design really do make an impact on the way someone behaves.

Lita Albuquerque

"The Stellar Axis project is a global work incorporating both the North and South Poles. For Stellar Axis: Antarctica the expedition placed 99 pure blue spheres on the Ross Ice Shelf (in proximity to the South Pole) in perfect alignment with a constellation of stars above, actualizing a kind of human-scaled stellar map and emphasizing the rotation of the planet."

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The world's deepest bin

This bin idea has been designed to change people's behaviour of littering and creating an entertaining way to throw rubbish in the bin. It is quirky and humourous and does change the behaviour of passers by. The reactions are classic!

Amazing Piano Playing Stairs

This interactive installation is a based on a campaign to create more people to take the stairs. Swedish designers have made climbing the stairs fun and enjoyable to get people exercising more. The installation of large piano keys makes sound which makes people want to take the stairs as they are interested in what is going on as well as wanting to participate in this unusual installation.

Ceci n'est pas un Casino

Works of art that are playing with you rather than you playing with them.

Patrick Bérubé, Demi-Mesure, 2005

Patrick Bérubé moved the floor of another exhibition room upwards to install the most frustrating trampoline i've ever seen. The ceiling is so low you have to bend in half if you want to get near the trampoline. Forget about jumping on it.

Jacob Dahlgren, I, the world, things, life, 2007

Jacob Dahlgren's I, The World, Things, Life fills a whole wall with dartboards. Visitors are invited to help themselves with the red darts on offer in nearby cardboard boxes and play a game of darts. Except that the exercise is absurd. How do you check if you've scored? Which red dart is your dart? Seen from afar, the wall dissolves into a big abstract painting that keeps changing as more people come inside the gallery and throw darts.

Letizia Romanini, Untitled, 2009

The artworks selected for Ceci n'est pas un Casino amplify the vexation experienced by visitors when enter the space thinking that they will enjoy games of chance. The exhibition is tantalizing, baffling, frustrating but it's also light, fun and sometimes thought-provoking. Just what games should be!

Ikonic

Prestige forest:

"colour of light depends on sun's rays at night."

Matrix of 5000 lights.

Villanurbs:

NY aquarium:

Francis Alys

A STORY OF DECEPTION.

A man pushes a massive block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts to nothing.

Francis Alÿs is a Belgian contemporary artist living in Mexico City. Above are stills from the short movie Paradox of Praxis 1, where Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts; serving as a way to mark time and measure existence.

milan exhibtion

This is an impression from the Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan that took place during the Salone del Mobile. An interesting bunch of designers somehow felt the urge to work together and present their stuff to a worldwide audience.

Tara Donovan

Tara Donovans work, seems to represent that of global warming and environmental issues creating sculptural pieces out of plastic cups, fishing lines, and paper plates. Her sculptures are organic and beautiful, it captures a lot of the organic shapes of the ocean and its beauty being damaged by man kinds reckless consumerism and disposable lifestyles we lead today. These forms have a very minimalist feel to them, pure forms white space with the quality of detail.

explorations

Dunedin art gallery

Wayne Barrar : An expanding subterra.

A leading figure in New Zealand photographic circles, Wayne Barrar consistently challenges audiences to think about land use, place and borders in an increasingly controlled world. An Expanding Subterra brings together for the first time a body of work that Barrar has been working on for the last seven years. This project provides a timely insight into a highly industrialized and commodified underground, where vast areas are taken up storing data and nuclear waste, multinational organizations operate 24/7 and teams of workers continue to prospect for rare materials.

Heather Straka : The Asian.

The Asian is the first major solo exhibition by Heather Straka in a New Zealand public gallery. For this project Straka has commissioned a selection of artisans from Shenzhen, China to produce fifty high-end copies of one of her original ‘Asian Girl’ paintings. This promises to be an intriguing installation where ideas about the authentic and fake, truth and lie, original and copy are brought into question.

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Earth from above

David Trubridge

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the aussie pie

Tripped across this image while researching. How cool is this!

Please swing

Personal experience of space is all about programme experience. This exhibition is taking the childhood memory of park swings and experiencing your own individual space.

Clearing

Lateral Architecture: This piece of exhibition art explores the ideas behind the competitiveness of personal space. Clearing invites visitors to modify and customize their immediate individual physical and atmospheric limits. The intervention will be mutable and invite gallery visitors to participate in customization of their personal space, and its subsequent impact on others.

John Reynolds

Doris Salcedo