Olafur Eliasson: Third Lecture
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Olafur Eliasson continues his discussion of the challenges confronting contemporary artists, framed in a retrospective on his career so far. Eliasson speaks of the power and effect of environments, the way those environments are constructed and conditioned, and the need to understand one’s environment as a subjective and negotiable event. This is the third of four lectures given by the artist in Addis Ababa in the context of an education collaboration between the Institut für Raumexperimente and the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design.
Synthesis
Marathon: compilation of independent things that still overlap • Getting into the flow • Navigation is the artists’ challenge • The effect of context on a work of art • Belief • Expand…
Marathon: compilation of independent things that still overlap • Getting into the flow • Navigation is the artists’ challenge • The effect of context on a work of art • Belief • Passion • Noticing emotions reminds us that we are not alone • Unconscious mirroring of emotional environments • Confidence • Glass creating an inside and an outside • Glass as highly alienating and excluding • Looking through walls • Borrowed views in Chinese gardens • Lalibela void • Artists’ ability to see an ‘invisible’ space • Omgivelser, an exhibition in-between walls • Separating artworks from consumer goods • A space where our subconscious can be explored • Your house • The notion of negative spaces as positive spaces • Being so busy making sense of what we see that we don’t see most of what’s out there • Simulating various light conditions to re-exercise our vision • The influence of lighting on our perception of colour • The historical conditioning of white • Associating white with purity: the use of lime in hospitals and the whitewashing of Protestant churches during the Reformation • Experimental set-ups with light: Your relativity of white, The light setup • Room for one colour • Broadening one’s point of view • The feeling that we are not the centre of the universe • Light is not without context • Light as a discursive practice • How a work of art evolves in the world • Art and artists as part of and bound up with an often invisible system
Short biography
Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic artist, founded the Institut für Raumexperimente, an educational research project, Expand…
Olafur Eliasson, Danish-Icelandic artist, founded the Institut für Raumexperimente, an educational research project, affiliated with the College of Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). The fundamental trajectory of the Institut für Raumexperimente is Eliasson’s interest in testing models of learning and cultivating experimental formats.