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Funambulism
Philippe Petit, New York, on 7 August 1974 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightrope_walking – Acrobats maintain their balance by positioning their centre of mass directly over their base of support, i.e. shifting most of their weight over their legs, arms or whatever part of their body they are … Continue reading
Posted in Third Year
Tagged architecture, balance, body, gravity, performance, risk, wire
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Upside down Mushroom Room – Carsten Höller
Upside down Mushroom Room (2000) Room with giant turning, upside down fly argaric imitations lit from underneath. “Looking at something is a dominant characteristic of such works: what is in question is the possibility of producing meaning or, at … Continue reading
Posted in Second year term TWO - Environmental
Tagged body, environment, gravity, question
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Cornelia Konrads – gravity
“Cornelia Konrads is the artist behind these magnificent gravity defying land art installations. She creates sculptures that blend in with nature and revolve around the illusion of weightlessness, in which objects appear to be floating in mid air.” Images and … Continue reading
Bas Jan Ader
“Imagine there is a man hanging by two hands from a tree. It’s a beautiful day, the sun is bleaching out the foliage and your eyelids seem translucent, so that you think you can see the man, even though your … Continue reading
Posted in Second year term TWO - Environmental
Tagged Bas Han Ader, fall, film, gravity, Yves Klein
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Double yellow Lines
“Double Yellow Lines” The work is nomadic, in search of a hill gradient of 12% minimum to be fully realised. the language is a shared momentum and communication between people. The medium is energy, enthusiasm, two hundred meters of rope … Continue reading
Posted in Second year term TWO - Environmental
Tagged communication, gravity, momentum, public art, rope
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Physics, gravity, rope and a complicated fancy diagram
Why does a long rope sag in the middle and become extraordinarily heavy when stretched out.. “The diagram above shows an idealised rope with all it’s weight concentrated at the centre of the rope. If the rope mass is m then … Continue reading
Posted in Second year term TWO - Environmental
Tagged gravity, movement, physics, rope
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St. Theresa in Ecstasy – Bernini
“St. Theresa was begun in 1647 and was completed by 1652. The sculpture itself is located in the Cornaro chapel. It is located on the chapel’s central wall in a rectangular niche. Theresa looks almost enclosed or trapped by … Continue reading
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