Aesthetics | concepts | atmospheres
“ No matter how small he is, he has all the
space anyone could ever want, right there in the television box.” – Andy Warhol
When reaching the 3rd floor of the Ian Potter Centre, I
was immediately drawn to the set of seven plain wood boxes with noise coming
out of them. As I got closer I saw that
they were in fact seven televisions, and they were in a plain wood box. I stood
and filmed the boxes for about one minute, after filming the TV screens I stood
and just soaked in the atmosphere around me.
On one hand you have this Huge gallery
space where people tip toe around looking at art work and then you have these
TV’s playing music clips from the 1980’s, which are chaotic with bright colors
glaring straight at you. I suppose I
feel like the artwork created two different atmospheric moments for me. One
being when I watched the 80’s music clips felt like I was in my living room
watching daggy music clips on video hits and dancing around and then on the other hand everything
else around me was silent and I remembered that I was in fact in a gallery and
not my living room.
Aesthetically the TV’s inside the plain wood
boxes to me are quite intriguing to look at, I think the use of the wood didn’t take away
from the clips being played, in fact I feel it made me focus more on what was
happening in the clips. To sum up how the artwork made me feel and how I was
able to relate to it I quote Andy Warhol “ Space is all one space and thought
is all one though, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces and thoughts into
thoughts”
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