Installation Art

Installation art are pieces of work presented in a gallery by using film, television and media as
their form of art. Installation art focuses on three main concepts, where it will exhibited, how it
is going to be exhibited in the space they have, and what the installation is going to be and how
it will give meaning. What makes installation art so unique is that is a unified experience. The
focus is on how the viewer experiences the work and the desire to provide an intense experience
for them. Here are 3 pieces of instillation art that have become widely popular over the years
and have given new meanings to the way we view media.
Douglas Gordon was born 20th
September 1966, he is a Scottish
artist who focuses his work on
disruption of perception by
making his audience aware of
their own fugitive subjectivity,
Gordon questions how we give
meaning to our experience of
things around us. One famous
piece of his work would be 24
hours psycho. This is where the
famous Alfred Hitchcock film
Psycho has been extended so that
the whole production lasts 24 hours. He wanted people to think about the concern for memory
and perception. Douglas focuses the viewers attention both on the intricate detail of the film in
its naked state, as the progression of the stills, as well as on their own recollections of a cinema
classic. Most of his work is presented on a simple large or small screen to make people focus on
what they are seeing and keeping the look, lighting and scenery of the art work the key focus.
The space he uses is very simple. It is an ordinary room with a projection and the film playing on
a large screen. Using a projector enables Gordon to get a high quality movie and as it was a 1993
installation he was able to enlarge to projection of the film. Using a large screen enables the
audience to see the detail within each shot. Because the film is slowed down to 2 frames a
second, it turns into a photographic slideshow. Having the large screen means that with each
photo the audience can see how much detail went into the film and how perfect each frame is.
The fill the room and make it the sole focus of the installation. This works well with his narrative
and use of space. Gordon did well to introduce is themes of recognition and repetition. Douglass
work has been exhibited in modern art Oxford as part of their Kaleidoscope. People are able to
view the full 24 hour installation. This allows people to truly appreciate the installation of Gordon
Douglas. They are able to view the non-narrative alternative piece and truly become immersed
with psycho.

A cascade of voices belonging to people

who have been declared physically
dead, but lived to tell the story, comes
together in a ghostlike installation of
104 screens. Experience the intriguing
art installation by the influential
American
artist
Susan
Hiller.
Channels, the installation artwork
Susan Hiller discusses, centers on death
and near-death experiences. The 104 television screens, which the artwork consists of, are
programmed with visuals in shades of blue echoing the screen of death in computer terms
and the stand-by screen in TV-terms and a myriad of voices belonging to people who have
had near-death experiences. The result is fascinating and somewhat uncanny. Using the different
shades of blue enables Hiller to set the mood in the area used for the installation. Hiller, using
the space brings audiences into each near death experience. Using the blue relaxes the audiences
and makes them feel safe and able to truly get lost in these near death experiences throughout
the installation. There are 104 screens, each being a different size, shape and color. This is to
make each story become completely different than the next. There are so many screens to
explain that there are so many different stories of near death, with each one giving a whole new
meaning to how important life is and how a near death experience can change everything.
Hiller is interested in investigating the non-narrative of certain occurrences, such as near-death
experiences, which have become subject to ridicule and even embarrassment: The point is that
the stories are there, and its worth looking into them. The incidents furthermore seem to
contradict the common belief that the brain is a source of consciousness or reality. You could say
the narrative is how each story is relating to the same situation of near death experiences. Hiller
had the installation in Matts gallery, her 4th installation here. So the audience will know that they
would enjoy this installation as Hiller has been so popular, using the same gallery means that the
same people can keep on coming back, and appreciate the installation, the space and the
location.
Tears of Steel is a piece of installation art
consisting of 27 monitors, 6 laser discs and 6 laser
disc players. All of these monitors are in one big
black box. Each monitor shows men who are at the
gym and using different weight machines at the
gym. All of the different videos run in sync with
one another. Even the way its shot is the same, the
camera pans over the faces of each athlete and
then goes to show what they are doing to enhance

their muscles. The installation shows that even though every man is different, they are seen as
the same person because even becomes identical. Every man works on one machine, then moves
onto the next to work on a different part of the body. A set routine that each man must do to
keep up his psychical appearance. The narrative gets the audience to think about how we born
into this set routine and how the perfection of man has become generalised and, the use of each
man looking the same meaning that everyone is trying to look the same. How everyone tends to
be the same. If you look at the installation you can see that it looks like a muscular man, using 27
monitors shows that there are so many men doing the same thing and that they are seen as the
same person. They become clones of each other and that there are so many more people like
this who will be exactly the same as these 27 men.
Each of these installations can relate to the installation I am creating. Seeing as I will have a small
blacked out room with one chair and a projector. I wanted to keep the installation simple but
effective. Having the blacked out room can make the whole production seem like a cinema and
yet the audience will still focus on what is being shown and not what is around them.