Untitled Scenario
UNTITLED SCENARIO
Installation
Shown at the royal danish art academy' graduating Exit show in GL. Strand 2008
In untitled scenario an office environment and a colourful plastic ball playground have merged together in one room. I choose the office for it’s symbolic effect, for something with great seriousity, with a strictly defined structure and a space that would lead the audiences mind against some kind of working space, a space for adults. I also choose the office because of the context of the exhibition. Most of the graduating art students will after this show be faced by society through an office, because of economical problems. If you choose to get economical help from the government, as an artist, you will have to deal with a system that doesn’t appreciate your kind of business. I choose the plastic ball playground for it’s symbolic effect, for something playful, with no defined structure and a space that would lead the audiences mind against some kind of playful space, or compared to the office, a room for kids. A space normally seen in big concerns like Ikea or McDonalds, where parents install their children while shopping. By decontextualizing the playground into an art space you could understand the exhibition space as a business parallel to a firm like Ikea, drawing that parallel raises questions about the art market and the big hype for young graduating art students in Denmark these days. Like the rest of the country Copenhagen has become rich and the prices for getting an apartment, a room or any kind of space is incredibly high. That makes it very hard for artist to exhibit works that are out side commercial art market interests, because of lag of space. That of course puts economical pressure on artists, maybe forcing them to rethink their ideals.
With most of my projects I wish to raise questions about space and human behaviours, what is a space and what impact does it have on the ones who enter it and why? What is an office and how would it work together with 20000 colourful plastic balls and how would the people working there behave? If you look closer on the objects you will see that none of the electronic devises are connected and the furniture is installed on the balls not the other way around, which transforms them into empty, flowing, humours objects with no greater hierarchical status than the balls on the floor. By throwing office furniture and balls into an exhibition space one of cause have to realise that this is shown in an art context, there for commenting on the structure around the space as well as in it. I would like the audience to perceive untitled scenario as a possible situation where people can meet, talk, think and act differently than the architectural, historical and hierarchical structures dictates.