Kati's research on Elmgreen Dragset and Diller Scofidio

MY CHOSEN ARTIST:  ELMGREEN AND DRAGSET

(Left: Ingar dragset, Right: Michael Elmgreen)

Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked together as duo artist since 1995. Their works explore between art, architecture and design and are known for subversive humor artwork with serious cultural concerns.

Since Elmgreen came from poetry and Dragset studied theater, so they started out doing performance. Here is one of their performance; it's never to late to say sorry.

It is a megaphone which is installed in public area in Rotterdam city. Everyday, the passer each make their own personal interpretation. This work changed that space and became a place full with people.

(Left: Fig.123, two door handles, 2000

Center: Fig.129, corner door, 2000

Right: Fig.133, triple door, 2002)

Powerless Structure is their first series of large work. They use everyday object with some modification and become an inspiring and thought-provoking installaion.

(Boy scout,2005)

Their ideas are from social power in life which is homosexual society and their relationship.

The brightness of shady lives, this installation is at Taka ishi Gallery. They present a large shelving system with 500 framed photographs of various gay cultural and everyday life. 

 

The display is exaggerated both in terms of quantity and the meaning of family. It doesn't obtained any rights or acceptance but rather claim their own identity.

MY CHOSEN ARTIST:  DILLER SCOFIDIO

Richardo Scofidio and Elizabeth Diller are actually architects. Their works mix the architecture with installation performance and media art. 

This one is called Para-site. The installation took place at MOMA. They uses the metaphor of parasite both physical and socially, and turn its architecture into the host

They use the live video of people activities in museum to offer the entertainment value. Like in this picture the video was installed near the escalator to record and play it in another room in order to create a new experiment toward that space.

Travelogues is the work permanently installed in the arrival building at JFK airport. 33 screens evenly spaced along the corridor; a place people pass through and not stop. 

Each screen holds 1 second of action and create a real time moving pictures as walking along the corridor. It is the short fiction of travelers and how their stuff in the suitcase identify them and their travel experience. Below is the video in result, what it will be like while walking through this corridor.