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Mood and Contemporary Space : On the Work of SANAA and Pipilotti Rist

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2017, 51(), pp.305-334
  • DOI : 10.17527/JASA.51.0.10
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : June 30, 2017

Seunghan Paek 1

1연세대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This article explores issues of mood and atmosphere in contemporary art and architecture through the following two cases: 1) “The 21st–century Museum of Contemporary Art”(2004) designed by a Japanese architectural firm known as SANAA; and 2) an installation project called “Pour Your Body Out”(2009) made by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist. Both are cases in which the mood, or an atmospheric dimension of everyday space in the contemporary world is activated. However, it is noticeable that each case brings forth mood and atmosphere in different ways. SANAA considers atmosphere (instead of using the term ‘mood’) to be something that can loosely controlled and programmed, also a means to overcome the self-disciplined nature of modern architecture that does not fully respond to the fabrics of everyday life. Meanwhile, Rist's installation shows how mood arises in improvisational and aleatory ways. In other words, while atmosphere in the 21st–century Museum tends to be reduced as a design element, in Rist's work it becomes an affective driver that sets out a field in which various participants are passing through each other and entangled together without forming coherent senses of community.

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