Rain Room
http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/random-international-rain-room--review-8199483.html
Rain Room is attraction that involves walking into a dense field of heavy rain. Rain Room tracks a person's movements as they step into a precise, 100 square metre cuboid torrent of water, yet they remain dry. It goes against our instincts to walk into water pouring so insistently, but every movement is anticipated - quickly shoot out your arm and still it stays dry; change the speed or angle of your walking and still the rain stops. Lovely visual details appear: look up and the droplets are a coruscating constellation, look forwards and the colour spectrum appears in the drops.
Antony Gormley - "Blind Light"
http://www.antonygormley.com/sculpture/item-view/id/241
Architecture is supposed to be the location of security and certainty about where you are. It is supposed to protect you from the weather, from darkness, from uncertainty. Blind Light, by Antony Gormley, undermines all of that. You enter this interior space that is the equivalent of being on top of a mountain or at the bottom of the sea. It is very important for me that inside it you find the outside. Also you become the immersed figure in an endless ground, literally the subject of the work.
http://www.yellowtrace.com.au/tetsuo-kondo-architects-cloudscape/
Tetsuo Kondo Architects created a small bank of clouds in the Sunken Garden of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.
The clouds billow softly in a compact, transparent container and can be seen from the entrance hall, exhibition galleries, outdoor plaza, and other parts of the museum. The stairs can be climbed inside the clouds’ container. When climbing to the top, the museum,
the surrounding buildings, and the sky stretch out above the top of the clouds. The edges of the clouds are sharp yet soft, and always in motion. Their color, density and brightness are constantly changing with the weather and time of day. The temperature and humidity inside the container are controlled to keep the clouds at their designed height. The air inside the container forms three distinct strata:
- One cool and dry, at the bottom
- A warm and humid middle stratum
- A hot and dry stratum at the top
The warm, humid layer is where the clouds form. The transparent container is constructed from clear 48.6mm diameter pipe. The flexible outer frame makes the whole structure responsive to wind pressure. The constantly changing clouds are both soft structures and part of the natural environment that surrounds
us. It is not the structure alone, but the invisible differences in humidity, the temperature, the weather, the time of day, and other aspects of the surrounding environment that make this work an artistic whole.
Berndnaut Smilde - "Nimbus"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/artist-berndnaut-smilde-creates-indoor-clouds/2012/03/13/gIQA7yAT9R_blog.html
Artist Berndnaut Smilde creates indoor clouds, controlling the weather. The Dutch artist can turn a clear sky cloudy - indoors. In his latest project, he’s installed real Nimbus clouds in empty gallery spaces in Amsterdam. Smilde’s godlike powers come from simple science - he carefully regulates the temperature and humidity of the space, ensuring that conditions are perfect. Then, he sprays a short burst from a fog machine to create a cottony cloud suspended in the middle of the room for just an instant before it collapses. “I’m interested in the ephemeral aspect of the work,” Smilde said in an e-mail. “It’s there for a brief moment and then the cloud falls apart. It’s about the potential of the idea, but in the end it will never function.” Smilde’s clouds dissipate so quickly that they exist mainly in photographs. He chooses surreal spaces, such as empty churches or galleries, as his setting. One photo, taken in a room with bright blue walls, is evocative of the painter Rene Magritte’s azure skies and puffy clouds.
Video of the event http://ilkadickens.com/2013/01/17/little-fluffy-clouds/
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