IAR-102: Table-Top Installation
In this project, students were grouped and tasked with finding materials through which to construct an installation that physically embodied the rational for a set of comprehensive, experiential attributes of constructed space. This project was prefaced with the students gleaning visual, structural, and formal vocabulary from an interview between artist Sarah Sze and Phong Bui, in the Brooklyn Rail.
Each student was then asked to isolate a screen shot from a favorite movie that they felt amplified experiential aspects of dynamic-space, and which they could analyze using the same vocabulary Sze applies to herself when constructing an installation. Students worked to cross reference each others selections, and to form a set of formal, visual and experiential objectives they would use as criteria in guiding their own installation construction. After salvaging materials, students began construction, of their ‘Space within a Space’. They were to keep in mind the following:
‘The objective of this construction should be to create space within a space that is transformative, defining the context of its own environment as a product of the manipulations you perform on light and space. Elements to exploit: scale, avenues of movement, depth of field, devices that frame or choreograph micro-elements of the space, light, the tension between perceived structure and orientation.’
Following the construction, each student was responsible for documenting a journey through the installation. The group selected a final of 5 images which were presented as the ideal documentation of their spatial installation.