Project Objectives

• To consider ‘space and place’

in art
• To consider issue based work
• To explore construction, 3D
form and learn workshop
skills
tear
pleat
fold
slice
pierce
“I use paper modelling as a means to generate form. I
place the emphasis on the creation of form through
exploring material, something paper lends itself to
perfectly.
All the objects produced are simply one stage in an
ongoing process of exploration. This involves
investigating the medium itself and the methods by which
it can be manipulated.”

Richard Sweeny
Richard Sweeny, 2007
Richard Sweeny, 2007

pop up paper
Matt Shlian
Task 1 -
Explore creating three dimensional forms from
cut, folded, pierced, pleated and torn paper
Lyonel Feininger
Task 2 -

Develop a three dimensional,

paper construction that draws

inspiration from the lines, angles

and intersections in this Feininger

painting.
 Installation art sits right on that curious border
between architecture, art and interior design -
part physical experiment, part personal
expression and part designed space. These
works of installation artists show the untapped
potential of spatial experience not often seen in
more purely functional (or purely artistic) works
of design
Lift Video
 Heather Benning

On approach one simply sees a sign for the

upcoming dollhouse and has to wonder what it
has to do with what appears to be a falling-apart
wooden building in the distance. Winding up the
road, however, there is a strange surreal shock
that occurs when you can suddenly see into
every room of this ghost house.
Over 1600 chairs went into
making this urban art
installation. The chairs are
aged, each with its own
history that contributes a
piece of the story of the
overall installation.
Doris Salcedo takes ordinary objects and uses their embodied histories, evolved forms
and sheer quantities to impress upon people the weight of time and meaning inherent in
everyday items. She has a fondness for domestic and commonplace materials - from
textiles to wood furniture - that show wear and tear over time.
Michel de Broin is a Montreal-born
Berlin-based installation artist whose
work confronts ordinary objects and
everyday situations in strange new
ways. This project at the
Villa Merkel in Germany plays on the
overwhelming role automobiles have
had in shaping contemporary culture in
very recent history. The juxtaposition of
modern symbols of vehicular movement
and classic interior designs is stark and
thought-provoking.
Walls, as we know them, define interior spaces. Most walls create unique
spaces. These walls, however, disrupt, permeate, infiltrate and invade them.
They challenge ideas of architecture, interior, exterior and place - these
additions interfere, obscure, distract and contradict.
 The installations of
Krijn de Koning are created in
all kinds of contexts, from
galleries and museums to
homes and forests. Some are
small scale and seen by few,
others are large and placed in
highly public spaces. Where he
goes, he turns places upside
down and inside out.

Using bright colours and simple

geometries, this incredible installation
artist sets up stark juxtapositions
between old and new, permanent and
impermanent, functional and artistic.
Whether you call it art, architecture or
interior design his works are worth
experiencing.
 The result of the strange
combination of familiar
spatial and architectural
elements engenders a
sense of dislocation as one
moves through these
spaces. Like any good
interior designer, his work is
place-dependent - the
existing spaces have an
impact on his artistic
creations.

Erik Olofson is one of those

artists who toys with ideas of
space and society, seen and
unseen, identity and
perception - but whose ideas
have a way of causing us to
rethink ordinary places and
spaces.
Like a work of architectural or interior design, this artist
characterizes the experience of the space as the critical
element of understanding it - the spaces themselves
and objects within are only vehicles for communicating
to those who pass through and around them.

Be deconstructing and reconstructing ordinary elements

of construction, the art is supposed to expose the
underlying tenuousness of our everyday realities - to
cause us to reflect on the origins of things we take from
granted in daily realities around us, including our very
own home.