Live art installations

From then on, installations have become a major strand in modern art and many installation artists emerged. From lard and felt installation by Joseph Beuys and the introduction of live animals into the gallery space by Jannis Kounellis to neon light sculptures and video installation of Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin presenting her bed as art, this movement has taken many forms and it continues to evolve and change still.

One of the most controversial figures associated with installation art is certainly Ai Weiwei. Expanding the definition of art to include new forms of social engagement , his dramatic actions highlight the widening gap between the ideal and the real in Chinese society. Some of his most memorable pieces are the installation Remembering where he campaigned to bring justice to the victims of the earthquake in Sichuan, the installation Sunflower Seeds consisted of million porcelain seeds made by artisans commenting on the mass production and consumption, and lately a controversial piece addressing the plight of Syrian immigrants.

Featured images: Ai Weiwei, via chicagoparksfoundation. Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude enhanced the genre of land art , presenting a different approach to the environment and raising our expectations of it. After an artistic and personal relationship that lasted over fifty years, Jeanne-Claude died in Christo continued working, and this year, he created the most ambitious project ever. Conceived by the couple, but executed by Christo alone, Floating Piers was a monumental installation in Italy that consisted of 3 kilometers long runway that floats on water, allowing people to walk freely across it.

Featured images: Christo, via katep. The wealthiest living British artist, Damien Hirst is a self-styled enfant terrible of contemporary art. Involving an entire zoo of dead animals , his famous series Natural History included various preserved creatures placed in steel and glass tanks filled with formaldehyde solution. Featured images: Damien Hirst, via newsweek. Sculptures and installations of Doris Salcedo function as political and mental archeology.

Using domestic materials charged with different meanings, she depicts burdens and conflicts with precise economical means. Recently, her works became increasingly installation-based, turning the gallery space into vertiginous environments charged with politics and history.

The piece Noviembre 6 y 7 from commemorating the seventeenth anniversary of the violent seizing of the Supreme Court in Bogota involved wooden chairs that were slowly lowered against the facade of the new Palace of Justice building. Featured images: Doris Salcedo, via wmagazine. A Belgian poet, filmmaker, and artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art, Marcel Broodthaers has indirectly written the history of art as we know it today, but has remained in the shadows of his more famous colleagues.

Regarded as a father of installation art , his practice involved many unconventional materials such as eggshells or mussels mixed with more traditional art. His practice was regarded highly innovative during the transformative decades of the s and s.

Huge swaths of the atypical sculpture garden were created by the most crafty elements in the natural world: wind, rain, ice and time. The landscape is broken into four natural galleries — the North Woods, Museum Hill, the Meadows and the South Fields — each with its own permanent collection and the occasional temporary exhibition. In the museum building, an immersive installation by Sarah Sze is on display through November 8, For five decades, Zagar plastered walls and sidewalks with mosaics made from clay tiles, found objects, junk and international folk art.

Tunnels and grottos he excavated in the mids add to the eclectic vision, which now consists of two indoor galleries and a two-level outdoor sculpture garden. The Prada Marfa has since been restocked with fakes. Artist Noah Purifoy picked the blistering Mojave to build his acre Outdoor Desert Museum , a collection of large-scale, immersive sculptures made from blown-out tires, broken keyboards, scrap metal and cracked toilets.

Complex and uncompromising, the pieces range from dark and political to silly and unexpected. The outdoor museum is free and, with the exception of a brochure to guide visitors at the gate, there is no staff and no major ongoing maintenance. Inspired by the Pop Art movement, the installation includes 38 bright and bold sculptures that play on the beauty of nature: massive flightless dragonflies, giant blue bears and creeping red tortoises.

Wander the grounds and delight in this colorful take on the traditional sculpture garden. A post shared by Otherworld otherworldohio. More than 40 artists collaborated to create Otherworld , a 32,square-foot immersive art installation in Columbus, Ohio. Otherworld walks the line between fantasy and science fiction, inviting visitors to discover the remains of an alternate reality created by a defunct tech company.

Within its 47 rooms bloom bioluminescent flora, bizarre creatures and alien landscapes of light and sound. Facing the one-two punch of Covid and civil unrest in , New York businesses protected their doors and windows with plywood, many pieces of which were quickly painted with murals and messages of the Black Lives Matter movement. So when businesses began to reopen later in the year and the precious plywood had nowhere to go but landfill, the arts nonprofit Worthless Studios launched an initiative to collect and redistribute it to makers for repurposing into new works of art.

A post shared by Steve Mention streetsideshot. There, more than murals and exhibits by local, national and international artists are spread across 15 buildings and a dozen free standing structures. While each sculpture is a work all its own, together — along with the pond and garden — they form a singular installation that beautifully combines art and the natural world. A post shared by Seismique seismique. The interactive art installation created by a team of 65 artists and craftspeople combines sculptural elements and technology across 40,square-feet of space.

At its core is a story of mystery and intrigue involving the vanished Selig family, clues to which are hidden in enchanted forests, two-dimensional cartoon rooms, futuristic corridors and the true-to-life two story Victorian house in which the Seligs lived.

Our productions may involve your local fire brigade or ferryboat, a 10 ton aquarium or a historic sailing ship. We are open to proposals for both indoor and outdoor spaces. Based on dialogue, we will create a unique concept for a chosen location. Our productions may include workshops and collaboration with local partners.