Installation Art

• Installation art can be traced back to Marcel Duchamp ready-mades.
  

  Marcel Duchamp - In Advance of a Broken Arm (1915)

• Early non-western installation art includes events staged by the Gutai group in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like Alan Kaprow.

Tanaka Atsuko - Electric Dress (1956)

• Alan Kaprow used the term “Environment” in 1958 to describe his transformed indoor spaces; this later joined such terms as ‘project art and temporary’.

• Installation art was introduced massively in the 1970s.

• Installation art is a term that refers to the field of art that the viewer can interact with or be submerged.

• Installation/Environment art takes into account the viewers full sensory experience.

• Installation art heightens the viewers awareness and response of how objects are perceived in an

installation.

• A Departure from traditional sculpture that places its focus on form.

• Installation art uses sculptural materials and other media to modify the way a particular space is experienced.

• Installation is not necessarily confined to gallery spaces and can be any material involvement in everyday public or private.

• Installation art combines almost any media to create an experience in a particular environment.

• Resources used in contemporary installation art range from everyday and natural materials to new media such as video, sound performance immersive virtual reality and Internet.

• Some installations are site specific in that they are designed to only exist in the space for which they were created.

• With the dawn of video in 1965, a concurrent strand of installation evolved through the use of new and ever-changing technologies, and what had been simple video installations expanded to include complex interactive, multimedia and virtual reality environments”.

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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama born in 1929 her works is very much absorbed in relation to Installation Art.

Self elimination or obliteration is a common theme -from her performances of the late 1960s

Kusama’s mirrored installations of the mid 1960s, such as ‘Peep Show‘.
Exposes a mirrored hexagonal room with coloured lights flashing in time to a pop soundtrack that includes songs by The Beatles, the viewer becomes one object among many in a visual field.
Viewers of Kusamas work play only an exterior looking in through peepholes to the interior. There is gratification of voyeurism in her work.
The alternative title “Endless Love Show“, it would seem viewers were intended to experience this installation in the company of someone who would peer through the second hole; two sets of eyes are fused into infinity.

Neo-Dada

• Artists that are associated with Yves Klein, Robert Rauschenberg and Jim Dine

• Jim Dine (June 16, 1935)  An American artist, works with clothing and household objects that were featured notably in his paintings of the 1960s, with a range of favoured motifs. His tool images – a representation that re-emerge throughout his career – evoke memories and emotions buried within the body.
  

  Jim Dine - Tool Box 1 (1966)

• Neo Dada was popularised in the 60s by Barbara Rose

• Barbara Rose is an American Art Critic

• Dadaism spawned Neo-Dada which shares an equivalent attribute in its approach to visual arts.

• It was an attack on Modernism and its false implication of expressing a spiritual meaning.

• Modernism failed of changing the world during the mid 50s and Neo Dada took its chance of exposing this factor.

• Robert Rauschenburg challenged Modernism by producing art that reflected the whole of life going against the conformist spiritual journey of Modernism.

• Their use of collage, assemblage and found materials echoes the Dada movement within Environments and Happenings. As apparent in Robert Rauschenburg’s Pledge ( 1968 )
  

  Robert Rauschenburg - Pledge (1968)

• The movement also helped motivate Pop Art and the art group Fluxus.  Fluxus which dawned during the 60s although flourished into the mid 70s supported artistic trialling mixed with social and political activism. Ideals of the Dada, Bauhaus, and Zen movements were behind the fabrication to which highlighted the Fluxus movement.
  

  Yoko Ono - Frieght Train (2000)