Often involving public nudity - the artist hoped to contrast the beauty of the youthful human body with the violence of the US–Vietnam War - they challenged prevailing moral frameworks. Kusama’s happenings, known as ‘body festivals’ - or ‘orgies’, as they were often sensationally reported in the mainstream press - typically provided platforms for spontaneous and improvisatory behaviour within conceptual and aesthetic frameworks determined by the artist. A product of the postwar Avant-garde, which almost immediately crossed over into popular culture, or at least underground counter culture, happenings developed as unconventional performance events increasingly relying on audience reaction and direct participation. Interactivity became an important component of Kusama’s work in the mid to late 1960s, when her solo public performances expanded into participatory happenings. The white room is gradually obliterated over the course of the exhibition, the space changing measurably with the passage of time as the dots accumulate as a result of thousands and thousands of collaborators. While this may suggest an everyday topography drained of all colour and specificity, it also functions as a blank canvas to be invigorated - or, in Kusama’s vocabulary, ‘obliterated’ - through the application, to every available surface, of brightly coloured stickers in the shape of dots.Īs with many of Kusama’s installations, the work is disarmingly simple in its elemental composition however, it brilliantly exploits the framework of its presentation. In this reworked and enlarged installation, an Australian domestic environment is recreated in the gallery space, complete with locally sourced furniture and ornamentation, all of which has been painted completely white. ‘Maiden Voyage’ by JeeYoung Lee is a mind-blowing installation of monumental origami creations and 400 hand-made Gingko leaves.The obliteration room 2011 revisits the popular interactive children’s project developed by Yayoi Kusama for the Queensland Art Gallery's ‘APT 2002: Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’.
#Obliteration room kusama for free
Ready for your next adventure? Visit a monumental origami installation for free at NOW Gallery. Practical InfoĪ 3-min walk from the Millennium Bridge, London Tickets She is undoubtedly a very important figure in both minimalism and pop art. Kusama has been acknowledged to be one of the most important living artists in the world. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist, best known for her infinity room installations (currently available to visit in Tate Modern), and her polka dotted artworks, and fashion designs.
Visitors are free to place their stickers anywhere they like, such as on the floor, on the furniture, on the artificial plants, and on any everyday object within the rooms. The apartment has four different rooms, including a living room, a kitchen, a bedroom, and playroom all furnished with white furniture. Visitors are invited to transform a completely white apartment into a riot of colours by using bright coloured round stickers.Įach visitor is handed a sticker sheet with different sized colourful dots and encouraged to place those stickers everywhere they like within the apartment. The experience is part of UNIQLO Tate Play, Tate Modern’s free programme of playful art-inspired Summer activities. The Obliteration Room is an interactive room, inviting families to become part of a creative artwork. The well-known Japanese artist, Yayoi Kusama is bringing a dotty playground for kids and families this Summer.
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