‘SWIMMING POOL’
AN UNREALISED PROJECT BY FERHAT OZGUR
PARIS 2012
The unrealised project entitled ‘Swimming Pool’ has been designed as a project which aims to blur the border between art and life. Here the aim of the project is to add new dimensions to the usual functions of both museums & galleries and swimming pools. Whilst swimming pools are considered to be ideal leisure centres regarding resting, refreshment and entertainment; museums & galleries, in addition to similar functions, have been the inevitable intellectual spaces of contemporary life.
A big ‘Swimming Pool’, installed in the centre of the Tate Turbine Hall, would simultaneously enable the public to experience the feeling of how it would be to swim inside an intellectual venue! Thus the swimmers, on the one hand, can benefit from the rehabilitating effect of the water whilst, on the other hand, they will be able to perceive the mental purification aspects (facilities) of the museum & gallery.
‘Swimming Pool’ is also expected to look like a big blue visual spot in the middle of the Turbine Hall.
Other procedures and details of how the Swimming Pool could be used by the public (i.e. the number of changing rooms, how many people would be allowed to go in at the same time, access to the pool, etc.) are predicted to be decided in collaboration with the managers of the Tate.
How would it feel to be able to say “Let’s go to the Tate Modern for a swim” instead of saying “Let’s go to the swimming pool this weekend”?
‘SWIMMING POOL’
AN UNREALISED PROJECT BY FERHAT OZGUR
PARIS 2012
The unrealised project entitled ‘Swimming Pool’ has been designed as a project which aims to blur the border between art and life. Here the aim of the project is to add new dimensions to the usual functions of both museums & galleries and swimming pools. Whilst swimming pools are considered to be ideal leisure centres regarding resting, refreshment and entertainment; museums & galleries, in addition to similar functions, have been the inevitable intellectual spaces of contemporary life.
A big ‘Swimming Pool’, installed in the centre of the Tate Turbine Hall, would simultaneously enable the public to experience the feeling of how it would be to swim inside an intellectual venue! Thus the swimmers, on the one hand, can benefit from the rehabilitating effect of the water whilst, on the other hand, they will be able to perceive the mental purification aspects (facilities) of the museum & gallery.
‘Swimming Pool’ is also expected to look like a big blue visual spot in the middle of the Turbine Hall.
Other procedures and details of how the Swimming Pool could be used by the public (i.e. the number of changing rooms, how many people would be allowed to go in at the same time, access to the pool, etc.) are predicted to be decided in collaboration with the managers of the Tate.
How would it feel to be able to say “Let’s go to the Tate Modern for a swim” instead of saying “Let’s go to the swimming pool this weekend”?