This week we are featuring Amy Thomas and Oliver Irvine with their work “Imagined Land”: a theatrical playground in a juxtaposition between an imagined and a real world. The natural and the pre-fabricated.
This is how they describe their work:
The installation, like the imagination, has no boundaries. Viewer becomes artist, artist becomes viewer. The environment seeps out of it’s boundaries and requires the embodiment of both the subconscious mind and the surrounding space. Visitors (4,600) are given a ticket, which is exchanged for a lump of clay at a hole in the gallery wall. Viewers are asked to create objects from the clay that they feel will contribute to the unfolding environment. The visitors ideas are incorporated by the artists, who mould their precious clay objects into the installation. Over time the sculpted and installed objects become conjoined and calcified in paint and in clay, which is continuously applied by the artists in this imaginative land. The work becomes a collaboration; between artist and viewer and acts as a state of raw communication. The ‘imagined land’ detaches itself from reality, and into the subconscious; it highlights a deeper understanding of our imaginative process. The collaborative act and contributions build up to create a large installation, and are designed to provoke the idea of personal creation in order for change and preservation of the current environment. Visitors are not working in competition, but performing the same simple physical act that builds up a mass accumulation of personalized matter. The Installation becomes an evolutionary process as a new relationship has formed between artist, participant, space, material and time to create a cycle of change in an ‘imagined land’ of order and chaos.
You can read more about the artist HERE
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