Open AccessFalling through Space. The gap between public art /new infrastructure and the displaced natural environments
Author(s) -
Jill Chism
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of public space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2206-9658
DOI - 10.32891/jps.v5i2.1289
Subject(s) - public art , natural (archaeology) , falling (accident) , commission , balance (ability) , space (punctuation) , public space , public culture , key (lock) , political science , aesthetics , sociology , architectural engineering , history , visual arts , art , computer science , engineering , computer security , politics , archaeology , law , psychology , neuroscience , psychiatry , operating system
As an artist, whose involvement with creating art in public spaces now spans 19 years, one of the key issues I have is with how to link public art (mostly incorporated in new public infrastructures) with the natural environments and prior histories that the artwork and infrastructure have displaced. My aim is always to address the importance of the balance between nature and culture. The way in which our relationship to nature and the prior histories of a ‘site’ are translated, depends foremost on the nature of the commission and its location.