ARTH 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Olafur Eliasson, Project A, Katie Paterson
30 Mar 2017
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Edward burtynsky"s photographs documenting this public event in public way. Aestheticizes the view vibrant colour is the healthy and lively, lush environment with the toxic black, devastated by darker currents of oil. Artists intervening in public spaces to keep these event in public mind. The problem with their work is viewed as an extension of the gallery space when they want to be a disruption and intervention. A future for the natural the non human. All inspiring natural force linked to sublime. The idea of contradictions of technology and the environment, the pure and the artificial. Constructed of primary building materials to make waterfalls and for them to operate safely in order to protect aquatic life so water could be pumped up through waterfall. Direct reference of technology that corrupt ideas of natural environment and an organic waterfall. Had unexpected environmental problems waterfall and mist of waterfall was killing nearby vegetation when there was high wind.
