Research Week Presentation

Lipstick Forest,Claude Cormier, Montréal

Our perception of our surroundings is the result of an experience based on movement through a site. With each step, we are presented with a different view of the landscape and objects in it. It is only by moving through space that our surroundings truly become alive, through the effect of parallax, among other things. Contrary to the static composition of a still image, objects move in relation to one another as one moves about the site.

 

Richard Long, Walking a line in Peru, 1972

Richard Long's sculpture are created during multi day walks. During his walks, Long experiences the site and the landscape in a more sensitive way. All of this is distilled into ephemeral sculptures that he then photographs. The result is a picture as a way for Long to share his feeling and experience of the site. Seeing the picture and knowing the process, the viewer can really imagine what it was like to be there and move about the site. The artist's movement through the landscape exists inside the artwork and is not accessible to the viewer except through their imagination.

Richard Serra, Clara-Clara

Serra conceives his sculptures for the viewer's experience. It is really important to him for visitor's to move around and inside it so they can feel the visual phenomenons and the changing relationship between the sculpture and it's surroundings.The sculpture is not an object but more of an interaction between the artwork, the environment and the viewer.

But how does this relate to our current project?

What we learned from this research is that the movement is a way to understand the environment both visually and sensitively. We can imagine that moving inside and around the architectural space is gonna be a way for people to be aware of the site. We could say that the day visitor's experience is much more immediate so that it relates to Serra's work, while the resident artits will have a more in depth experience of the site related more to Long's work

"It was a alluring presentation" Professor Ricardo Castro