SITE SPECIFIC ARTWORK: CINEMATIQUE

I want to develop a site specific art piece that is a documentary of sorts. The aim is to capture peoples love of the cinema as a talking head IN a cinema and to do this in multiple interviews  These will then all form a mini documentary about one person. The aim s to repeat this so that there are a great many responses and then to put all of these on ipads or similar in the cinema auditorium. the audience will then be able to create their own documentary by walking around and interacting with the screens to get the thoughts of every screen or the screens of their choosing.

On the screen behind them i may well put a live feed of them interacting with the audience by turning the camera on them. It is all about the notion of looking, cinema, the watched and the watchers. It is currently just an idea but i created a rough visual of how it might look and I will continue to develop it in the background.

Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites. Site specific environmental art was first described as a movement by architectural critic Catherine Howett and art critic Lucy Lippard.