Installations don’t say anything but stand where they are.
Here is an installation work (the picture above) that I would like to introduce to everyone. Actually, I saw this work nearly 3years ago in an exhibition entitled ‘The Scenic Eye (Visual arts and The Theatre) in Korea, but it still interests me because it was my first time to experience this kind of show. Before I saw the exhibition, I had been thinking about theatre as a performance, which obviously needs actors. Actually it doesn’t.
Hans Peter Kuhn, who is a German artist, exhibited his installation without any note telling people what to do with his work. He just put the work in a space. “For me it’s not about showing, but rather about generating something specific. I don’t want to present a position, a story or transmit something. Instead, I want to provoke a feeling or an impression in the audience.” He said when an interviewer asked “If there is no actor who can present what you want to show people, there can be only the audience. Then what kind of work would you like to do with them?”
In Hans Peter Kuhn’s Middle Place, everyone can be invited as a producer or an actor who completes the work. There are four speakers on the edges, which emit a curious sound, and in the middle of the space there is a chair so that people can sit there. Then it is absolutely up to the audience to decide which sort of sound they are. Some might think it is water dropping and some might think it is thundering applause. Actually, there is no answer to that and it doesn’t really matter what the audience thinks, the artist just offers an opportunity to travel into his work.
Here is an installation work (the picture above) that I would like to introduce to everyone. Actually, I saw this work nearly 3years ago in an exhibition entitled ‘The Scenic Eye (Visual arts and The Theatre) in Korea, but it still interests me because it was my first time to experience this kind of show. Before I saw the exhibition, I had been thinking about theatre as a performance, which obviously needs actors. Actually it doesn’t.
Hans Peter Kuhn, who is a German artist, exhibited his installation without any note telling people what to do with his work. He just put the work in a space. “For me it’s not about showing, but rather about generating something specific. I don’t want to present a position, a story or transmit something. Instead, I want to provoke a feeling or an impression in the audience.” He said when an interviewer asked “If there is no actor who can present what you want to show people, there can be only the audience. Then what kind of work would you like to do with them?”
In Hans Peter Kuhn’s Middle Place, everyone can be invited as a producer or an actor who completes the work. There are four speakers on the edges, which emit a curious sound, and in the middle of the space there is a chair so that people can sit there. Then it is absolutely up to the audience to decide which sort of sound they are. Some might think it is water dropping and some might think it is thundering applause. Actually, there is no answer to that and it doesn’t really matter what the audience thinks, the artist just offers an opportunity to travel into his work.
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