Artists working with spacial concepts

If anyone is aware of any artists that are investigating space in interesting ways, I would love to hear about them.

This may involve artists who are:

Exploring space as navigatable, knowable and defined, i.e. with maps, trails, directional work, data mapping, survailance, reconstructions.

Space as uncertain or spaces dealing with dualities; reconfigured spaces, anxious spaces, looking at space from dimensions such as height, lightness/darkness, weight, spaces that change.

Durational space, space where events occur, spaces that operate as a site for action and reaction, spaces that deal with time, site specific spaces, performance.

Spaces as sights of memory, forgetting, monumental spaces, informational spaces, museums, offices.

Images

The images untitled8-2006 and untitled9-2006 are part of an untitled projection series that was shown on built surfaces. This series explores the dialogue between internal and external emotional states and physical spaces. The hidden interior of human thought is contrasted with the x-ray image of a breast, symbolising the ‘bloom’ as referred to in another image. The internal secret bloom is then projected externally, impersonally, for all to see. The two images speak of both physical and emotional darkness.

Discussion Points

How does one identify an anxious state, an anxious place or an anxious act? How can a state of anxiety be created or represented through an artwork? What are the triggers of an anxious state? Do we hide from these triggers, or do we cultivate them through the way we act and subsequently, through the way we make art?

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I want to:

examine how the viewer's own subtle self-references of memory, guilt and culpability condition them to be influenced and affected by certain imagery, be it of a person or a specific space.

explore how anxiety manifests (influenced by internal and external sources) and explore the performance of these manifestation or apparitions in my work, through way of gesture, gaze, construction and intent.

elucidate ideas of duration, permission, exposure, tension, intimacy and claustrophobia.

focus on the psychological manifestations of a space and our preconceived notions of how a space must occur and behave (and in turn, us within such a space).


Currently:

I have been thinking a lot about images of the landscape, particularly urban landscapes, reconfigured as menacing, collapsing and containing, or in opposite, landscapes that are completely autonomous and impersonal.

I am interested in explorations using the gestures and physical movements of the human body, and their source from and effect on an anxious state, and how one can explore these movements within the photograph.


Some Ideas of why?

These concepts are relevant in view of the hyper-real and super-connected channels of communication existing in contemporary culture, such as language barrier breakdown, mutable geography, the Internet, and the slow corrosion (or superseding) of “normal” cultural practices in favour of an ideal or acceptable way of acting.