Installation Art Chapter 2

PROYECTOS DE INSTALACIÓN JESÚS HUMBERTO ÁLVAREZ QUEVEDO REPORT 2: INSTALLATION ART, CHAPTER THREE

In this Chapter, Claire Bishop talks about the problematic the idea of subjectivity as stable andcentre, by fragmenting or consuming the viewer's sense of presence within a space. Most of these installations, do not seek to increase perceptual awareness of the body but rather to reduce it, byassimilating the viewer in various ways to the surrounding space. The first kind of installation she mentions involves the darkness as a completely engulfing entity, which has become familiar in themuseums. This kind of experience is different from Minimalist sculpture and postminimalist installation art. This dark installations oscured and confused space suggest our dissolution. There is noperceptible space between external objects and myself. Keeping in touch with the light, we saw one specific James Turrel's work where the viewer walks through a black corridor and finally emerging into adark space infused with deep color. We cannot identify the boundaries of the room even our own bodies. External color seems to derive from inside our eyes. He was influenced by minimalism. Perception isthe object and objective of his art. Turrel describes his work as situations where imaginative seeing and outside meet, where it becomes difficult to differentiate between seeing from the inside andseeing from the outside. Then, the text moves us into the mirror displacements information, and Dan Graham installations say that we are made aware of our interdependency of our perception with that ofthe other viewers: reflective glass and mirrors are used to disrupt the idea that subjectivity is stable and centered. Is important to take in to account Lacan's argument in "The mirror stage" wherefocused that the act of reflection is formative of the ego, unlike Merleau-Pointy's idea that consciousness is confirmed by reflection. Richard wilson, 20:50, installation, a room half filled with...