Contact
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Contact is a large-scale immersive art installation by Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson that explores perception, light, and spatial experience.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artwork
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immersive art installation ⓘ |
| artisticGoal |
to explore the relationship between body and space
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to heighten visitors’ awareness of their own perception ⓘ to investigate how light shapes spatial experience ⓘ |
| artistNationality | Icelandic-Danish ⓘ |
| artMovement |
contemporary installation art
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experiential art ⓘ |
| conceptualFocus |
embodied perception
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the physicality of light ⓘ the role of the viewer in constructing space ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
Denmark
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Iceland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| creator |
Olafur Eliasson
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Studio Olafur Eliasson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exhibitionType | site-specific installation ⓘ |
| experienceType | large-scale immersive environment ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary art
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installation art ⓘ light art ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | nonverbal ⓘ |
| hasPart |
color-saturated environments
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corridors ⓘ darkened spaces ⓘ geometric light projections ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
landscape and atmospheric phenomena
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perceptual psychology ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
light
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perception ⓘ spatial experience ⓘ |
| movement | visitors walk through the installation ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Room for one colour
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The Weather Project NERFINISHED ⓘ Your Rainbow Panorama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| temporalAspect | experienced over a continuous walk-through duration ⓘ |
| typicalAudienceInteraction |
visitors experience disorientation and reorientation in space
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visitors navigate through changing light and darkness ⓘ visitors’ depth perception is challenged ⓘ |
| usesMaterial |
architectural structures
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fog ⓘ light ⓘ mirrors ⓘ |
| visualCharacteristic |
geometric patterns of illumination
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monochrome and colored light fields ⓘ strong contrasts of light and darkness ⓘ |
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