Questions for Seminar:

1.)   What separates sculpture from installation?

2.)   What do you think of installations that also provide a public service such as Alicia Framis’ Blood Sushi Bank and Vito Acconci’s latter architecturally based installations? Where does one draw the line between well thought out architecture and installation? Can both coincide?

Response to the reading:

            Many modern installations rely greatly on technology in one form or another. The line between cinema and installation is drawn in the reading when it is stated “Cinema provides the dominant cultural experience that installation must explore. Film has been instrumental in setting the viewing conditions and expectations for today’s audiences, as it envelops the spectator in an overwhelming spectacle of narrative, sound and vision” (23.) Cinema therefore can be the foundation for installation. The average film viewer is presented with a 2D experience that is separated into the audience and the screen. Installation fills in the gap. Installations will engulf the viewer in a film, using dueling projectors, mirrors and other means by which to allow the film to be a complete experience for the senses.