This week we learned about installation art. We learned that installation art focuses on how the art work affects the space of the gallery. We learned that this particular type of art dominates the provided space, examples include clutter splattered everywhere, or a strategically placed interior design, or a big architectural design. The important foundamental feature of installation art is that it must have a dynamic relationship with the space and it must confront the viewer; it must evoke as many senses as possible and aim to take over the body as well as the mind. We saw examples from the Guggenheim Museum, Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall, as well the Museum of Modern Art. The installation piece that sparked my attention most was the exhibit at the Tate Modern apart of the Unilever Series by Miroslaw Balka. He built a large, dark, black box in the middle of Turbine Hall. I was initially attracted to this piece because it reminded of a exhibit I went to with my Mom and Aunt in NYC when I was younger. We waited in line for hours to climb into a small hole in the middle of the wall. It was a pitch black tunnel that wove around and had subtle inclines and declines. The material of the tunnel also changed throughout course; it really made you rely on all your senses other than vision to find navigate your way through the tunnel. After doing some more research about Miroslaw Balka I learned that his black box is a symbolic structure of the Holocaust. It is similar to how many polish jews were told to enter a dark black room which they were told to be showers but were really gas chambers. This black box is meant to test how well you trust a strange unknown place as well as playing with your senses of vision by creating a big contrast from light to dark, as well as the sense of sound by hearing many people before you stomp through the steel architecture, as well as evoking emotions of excitement and fear.
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/unilevermiroslawbalka/default.shtm
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