Installation and site/ place artwork creates a whole new environment for the audience. The goal of many artists is to create a space within a space.
While creating a work of an installation nature, one must consider the space provided. The way one might use a space could drastically change the viewer's perception. Perception is what the artist must alter when creating a work like this. They are playing with the audience's conception of the space and turning it into something entirely new, and possibly not for its intended purpose.
Installation pieces can range from many objects repeated in an environment or a new space physically constructed.
By using the repetition of objects, the artist can create a new environment for the art objects created. This type of environment, however, leaves more open to the viewer.
Other artists, such as Louise Bourgeois, create a new physical space, such as in Precious Liquids, in which the viewer is allowed to enter.
This construct of space lets the viewer step into the world of the artist, and allows the artist to bring his or her ideas into the world.
Part of this goal might be to bring the unusual into the world of the ordinary, to jar people's perspectives and to get people thinking. Public art is a type of art in which the artist must take into careful considerations the location and the life around the location. Often these elements are crucial to the piece of art and are thus integrated.
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