Roey's Installation Artists

DOUG FISHBONE

Installation artist Doug Fishbone's most ambitious projects have involved up to 40 000 bananas piled up in public places. Happily, once the pile is complete, the bananas are given away free of charge. This project which touches on the themes of consumerism, violence and globalization has landed in London, New York, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Poland.

This work totally reminds me of some of the issues Rachel is dealing with in Mixed Media...but I like how simple yet symbolic this conceptual work is and how it exists in pubic space.

KATE ERICSON AND MEL ZIEGLER

Two of my favorite artists are Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. They also work in public space AND with people who are not artists. I have a book I will bring to class. Above are images from their project House Monument. It's a multi-layered project, so it's easier if I just explain it in class.

DORIS SALCEDO

Responding to specific architectural, geographic and political situations, all of Salcedo’s projects are grounded in meticulous research, the exact nature of which is mostly hidden by the silent and hauntingly beautiful poetry of her work. Common themes include the destructive force of violence, personal and collective trauma, and the tragedy of human loss.

In 2002 over the course of two days Salcedo lowered 280 chairs down the façade of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá to pay homage to those killed here in a failed guerrilla coup seventeen years earlier. Blurring the lines between performance and sculpture this extraordinary spectacle publicly confronted memories of this traumatic event for the first time. The following year, at the Istanbul Biennial 2003, Salcedo filled a derelict building plot with 1,550 wooden chairs. These were piled house-high and made flush with the facades of the buildings either side, evoking the masses of faceless migrants who underpin our globalised economy.

"Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Salcedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means." --White Cube

ROMAN ONDAK
Measuring the Universe







In his conceptual work, Roman Ondak uses spaces and materials as well as people and social rituals.

"the first exhibition with Roman Ondak in a German museum. Measuring the Universe, 2007, is a topocentric and therefore never ending trial to measure the immeasurable. The museum visitors are asked whether they want their size to be measured by the museum guards – in the same way as the size of children is measured by standing against a wall. At the level of each visitor’s height, the mark together with the first name and the date is written on the wall of the exhibition space."

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