How can you make the spaces that people displace into a collective
energy field – in oter words take the idea of spatial extension from the idea of
singularity, producing an expanded field to an immersive field of individual packets
of energy?
Occupying an entire floor of BALTIC (8000 square feet), the piece
involved the participation of volunteers from Newcastle and Gateshead.
Volunteers aged from two to eight-five years were moulded in
plaster by teams of specially trained staff. These moulds were then used to construct
the individual DOMAIN sculptures by a process of welding the steel elements together
inside each mould.
A DOMAIN is constructed of stainless steel bars of various lengths,
with the finished installation including a collection of 287 sculptures. The work
needs to be inhabited by the living bodies of the viewers (which in Gateshead included
many of the friends and relatives of the participants). It is their motion through
the piece that made the work.
I thought this particular work required it's own post. The text at the top is the statement accompanying the photos on his website.
I thought the concept behind the work is rather interesting - the space a body occupies. It's communicated well in the sort of transparentness of the figures and their almost not-quite-corporeal quality.
The motion of people walking among the figures definitely made the work - as written in statement - the way they have to move around 'previously occupied space'
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