Post 2

For this post, I'm just going to share some links to sites that I think will be helpful for understanding installation projects.

Art by Thomas Doyle - This is the artists main web site. I really like the images within the distillation series, especially"Displaced Persons", "In the Bone", and "Acceptable Losses". The works found in the Reclamation series include containers other than the usual "snow-globe" format that seems typical to most of the artists work. Some of the containers used to house some of these pieces are an old first-aid kit, specimen jars, and cabinets. In the artists resume/statement, Thomas Doyle explains that his pieces are, among other things, a study of memory and perception. He also explains that the glass that contains his pieces seem to lock the images within into a specific moment in time. What is the artist trying to convey by housing his work in a first-aid box? How does the intense blue lighting in "Stigmatized Property" effect the mood of the piece - the mood of the viewer?

H.R. Giger - Museum Bar - This is the artist website for the museum bar in Chateau St. Germain, Switzerland. This permanent installation is both a museum of three-dimensional art pieces created by the artist. The exhibit not only functions as a museum, but is also a full bar. I think the idea must have formed after the artist was commissioned to design some props for the film "Dune". Many of the Harkonnen set design elements can be found in this bar. The chairs are an obvious example. The ribcage-like ceiling and mono-chromatic color scheme in the museum/bar really set an atmosphere very much like an H.R. Giger painting.

Bummer! - I was hoping to find a link to some video footage of performance art done by Alex Grey.  Alex Grey is mostly known as a hyper-realistic painter whose primary focus is on spirituality. I remember reading about Grey's early works during his late teens and early 20s. It seems like before the artist was recognized as an established painter, most of his work was done infront of small crowds of people on street sidewalks. Much of the performance art that Grey did during this time was horribly offensive to people. Grey would often incorporate corpses in his "on-stage" performance acts. One that I can remember involved a nude corpse of a woman, suspended by a rope tied around her ankle, which was balanced by Alex Grey himself suspended by the ankle as a counter balance on a large scale. The entire piece was centered in front of a large crudely drawn crucifix. I think one of the main goals that grey had was to shock his viewers to a certain point just to get their attention, but also to convey the importance of his message.