A room with a view”, 2011 By Amalia Caputo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION “A room with a view” is a project for an installation/temporary or permanent exhibition that deals with the physical inversion as an interaction/ direct experience with general public.
CONCEPTUALIZATION
For more than 20 years, I have been a producer of images. I am a photo based artist who’s career is slowly shifting to installation and experiment –process based work. I am interested now more in the experience that the public actually has by visiting an “art” space than producing consumer-based objects. I continue to produce visuals driven from my installations as the registration of the succession of events that occur in the exhibition space while the exhibition is held. The archive is one very important aspect of my work, and it now serves to keep the live experiences I create.
10-15 different brands and models inversion tables will be placed at the exhibition space (depending on available budget).
Public will sign a disclosure to the museum/gallery/installation space, to release liability from possible injuries or problems driven from the temporary use of the inversion table’s, as well as a video release for being video-taped randomly during the day.
Public will have access to “invert” their bodies for a period of time. Time will depend on availability and queue.
Artist will produce a Time-lapse video from the daily video taping registered during the time of the exhibition.
With this project, I am interested in the direct relation of the public with an object placed as “art”, -in a more than conscious relation with Duchamp-, but being able to benefit from it, physically and mentally.
Inversion tables are considered to be great for physical and mental health. They promote improvement in fatigue cases, blood circulation, optimization of lumbar, neck pain, general back pain, and the skeleton system, etc. Daily inversions are recommended to improve general physical health. By offering this possibility to the public. I am interested in the exchange of the public with the art “piece” beyond mere contemplation. I am hereby displacing the common notion of an art object to be consumed as a contemplation/ intervention situation to the internal body actual benefit. Intellect /perception moves to the experience/ real physical condition. It is an experiment of sharing, shifting paradigms, having fun and offering a different perspective within the art experience.
The public using the inversion tables becomes a performer for the video, at the same time, they benefit from doing so. On the other hand, when installation is empty it works as such: an installation of ready-mades. The process of the experience becomes the focal interest for the public. I am interested in providing this experience.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
10 -15 Inversion Tables placed by artist in space
Rubber non-skid floor stabilizers for each table’s security.
2 Video Cameras fixed on wall with time-lapse programming
BUDGET (for an installation of 10)
(Installation of tables number will vary depending on the spatial and economical conditions)
10 Inversion tables average priced : $ 140,oo each x 10 = $ 1400
Rubber non skid floor stabilizers: $ 20, oo each pair x 10 = $ 200
2 small video cameras: $ 400,oo each = $ 800
2 wall mounts for video cameras: $ 35,oo each = $ 70
TOTAL = $ 2470
This project is the second of a series of projects that are intended to reflect upon the nature of the experience of art between the public and the artist as a giver/facilitator of events of different kind. This specific project has not been realized mainly due to economic limitations.
A room with a view”, 2011 By Amalia Caputo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION “A room with a view” is a project for an installation/temporary or permanent exhibition that deals with the physical inversion as an interaction/ direct experience with general public.
CONCEPTUALIZATION
For more than 20 years, I have been a producer of images. I am a photo based artist who’s career is slowly shifting to installation and experiment –process based work. I am interested now more in the experience that the public actually has by visiting an “art” space than producing consumer-based objects. I continue to produce visuals driven from my installations as the registration of the succession of events that occur in the exhibition space while the exhibition is held. The archive is one very important aspect of my work, and it now serves to keep the live experiences I create.
10-15 different brands and models inversion tables will be placed at the exhibition space (depending on available budget).
Public will sign a disclosure to the museum/gallery/installation space, to release liability from possible injuries or problems driven from the temporary use of the inversion table’s, as well as a video release for being video-taped randomly during the day.
Public will have access to “invert” their bodies for a period of time. Time will depend on availability and queue.
Artist will produce a Time-lapse video from the daily video taping registered during the time of the exhibition.
With this project, I am interested in the direct relation of the public with an object placed as “art”, -in a more than conscious relation with Duchamp-, but being able to benefit from it, physically and mentally.
Inversion tables are considered to be great for physical and mental health. They promote improvement in fatigue cases, blood circulation, optimization of lumbar, neck pain, general back pain, and the skeleton system, etc. Daily inversions are recommended to improve general physical health. By offering this possibility to the public. I am interested in the exchange of the public with the art “piece” beyond mere contemplation. I am hereby displacing the common notion of an art object to be consumed as a contemplation/ intervention situation to the internal body actual benefit. Intellect /perception moves to the experience/ real physical condition. It is an experiment of sharing, shifting paradigms, having fun and offering a different perspective within the art experience.
The public using the inversion tables becomes a performer for the video, at the same time, they benefit from doing so. On the other hand, when installation is empty it works as such: an installation of ready-mades. The process of the experience becomes the focal interest for the public. I am interested in providing this experience.
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
10 -15 Inversion Tables placed by artist in space
Rubber non-skid floor stabilizers for each table’s security.
2 Video Cameras fixed on wall with time-lapse programming
BUDGET (for an installation of 10)
(Installation of tables number will vary depending on the spatial and economical conditions)
10 Inversion tables average priced : $ 140,oo each x 10 = $ 1400
Rubber non skid floor stabilizers: $ 20, oo each pair x 10 = $ 200
2 small video cameras: $ 400,oo each = $ 800
2 wall mounts for video cameras: $ 35,oo each = $ 70
TOTAL = $ 2470
This project is the second of a series of projects that are intended to reflect upon the nature of the experience of art between the public and the artist as a giver/facilitator of events of different kind. This specific project has not been realized mainly due to economic limitations.