Fine and Performing Arts Abstract Example 2
The investigation I am undertaking is concerned with facilitating social interaction
through the creation of public sculpture. The investigation is set out in several
steps. The first, and current, point in this investigation is in two parts. The first
part is concerned with creating public outdoor sculpture that entices the viewer to
interact with it. These first sculptures are attempts at creating work that will stop
the viewer and cause them to investigate the qualities of the sculptures further;
whether that interaction is simply taking a closer look, touching or sitting on the
sculpture, or playing on the sculpture. The underlying desire of this work is to
have people who do not usually stop and view outdoor sculpture to do so and
facilitate interaction between people who would not normally interact socially.
The next element of this initial investigation is to facilitate or participate in art
making as a community activity in order to better understand the means to do so.
The second step in this investigation is to seek out commission work from
institutions, cities, and other entities that require interaction with many other
people in order to complete the work (i.e.: designers, architects, city planners,
and mostly the community). The intention for this work is for the wider community
to become involved in the creation of public artwork in their community and
subsequently possess personal stake in the sculpture that they had a hand in
creating. In the final step in this investigation I wish for the sculpture or final
product of this interaction to become simply a record of that event, having the
community interaction be the actual piece that is created and myself only the
facilitator for this social interaction.