The work was built for the first time in Buenos Aires in 1966 and rebuilt by the artist this past October to be included in a gallery dedicated to the different ways artists in Caracas, New York, Zagreb, and Tokyo, among other distant cities, dealt with the problem of bare form during the 1960s.
This striking topography-half sculpture, half architecture-is an early work by Argentine David Lamelas, titled Corner Piece. ACM 1-59593-025-.One of the corners of the gallery Touching the Void, on the fourth floor of the Museum, appears to be folded outwards, as an inverted pyramid. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).
Two media works function as appendixes to this interactive video: an audio piece citing passages from Jean-Paul Sartre s six hundred page essay Being and Nothingness recorded in reverse and a compilation video featuring short segments from James Whale s 1933 movie version of The Invisible Man based on Wells seminal novel. Their physical involvement controls the raveling and unraveling of the bandaged figure, which appears and disappears before them, and results in the alteration of a sound track that is formed and punctuated by their movement. The video footage and accompanying sound track are slowed down, sped up, played in reverse and forward depending the viewer s proximity to the screen. The viewer s physical movements are mirrored back and contrasted to the image of a mysterious figure whose unraveling bandages reveal an invisible subject.
Wells science fiction classic The Invisible Man . In this artwork the viewer s body controls the speed and direction of a short video sequence inspired by H.G.
Hence the question which is put to us now with a particular urgency: if Nothingness can be conceived neither outside of Being, nor in terms of Being, and if on the other hand, since it is non-being, it cannot derive from itself the necessary force to nihilate itself where does Nothingness come from? Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness Invisible sculpture #1 is the first in a series of sculptures that reflect upon questions of embodiment, the transitory nature of being and the generative force of the imagination. We cannot even say that Being excludes it.
INTRODUCTION The notion of Being as full positivity does not contain Nothingness as one of its structures. ACM Classification Keywords H.1.2 User/Machine systems, Human factors H.5.1 Multimedia information systems, Artificial, augmented, and virtual realities, Video. Author Keywords Interactive video, Science fiction.
Invisible Sculpture #1 Lorraine Oades Concordia University 1395 Rene Levesque Boulevard West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 2M5 ABSTRACT Invisible sculpture #1 uses interactive digital interfaces to question the nature of materiality within information-based post-corporal societies. Invisible sculpture #1 Invisible sculpture #1