ByKatharina Grosse, these huge, beautiful sculptural installations utilise their environment by being painted in situ making each set-up entirely unique. I feel torn between thinking of a martian landscape, or a Lovecraftian fifth dimension.
Thomas Lerooy, I Don’t Need Me, 2014, Bronze, patina, glass 56 x 15 x 15 cm 22 1/8 x 5 7/8 x 5 7/8 in 156.5 x 27 x 27 cm (with pedestal) 61 5/8 x 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 in, Ed #1/5
Telepresence art installation by H.O features two rooms, one with a display with eye-tracking interface to control a ceramic cup, the other a chromokey-suited robotic arm to carry out instructions from the former room:
What if our thoughts materialized as tangible actions in remote locations? IMAGINATIVE is an installation work consisting of two rooms. In the first, there is a monitor displaying a table with a cup in an empty room. Using a specialized (eye tracking / brain computer) interface, participants can telekinetically control the cup in the remote space. The shifting of the cup back and forth, poised in the air, expresses someone’s imagination in real-time. In the second room, the audience will encounter an extraordinary spectacle. Sitting on the table is a green robot arm enabling the cup to move, while the floor surrounding the table is covered in broken cups. Given that brain computer interfaces directly connect our “consciousness” with the external world, what does “imagination” mean? What is the “imagination” that we present to the world?
I had the pleasure of Swiss painter,Olivier Mosset, visit my studio at Hunter to view the installation of the “Monochrome R-40” mound , in which is comprised of entirely XXtra Hot Cheetos, and “Eternal Flam(Ing Hot Cheetos)”, a video component of a burning Hot cheeto infinitely burning.
Mosset is mostly known for his monochromatic painting. As I further investigate the artificial food coloring Red 40, our discourse on the meditative act on looking at one thing at a time moved me deeply. This would be the first time I would install this work without the gold floor as a gesture towards the monochrome.