A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Public Art and Time
Authors: Sihvonen Jukka
Editors: Johanna Ruohonen, Asta Kihlman
Publishing place: Turku
Publication year: 2013
Book title : Machineries of Public Art. From Durable to Transient, from Site-bound to Mobile
Series title: Utukirjat-sarja
First page : 104
Last page: 127
ISBN: 978-951-29-5588-6
ISSN: 2341-9326
Abstract
The article discusses the relationship between time and public art beginning with the heideggerian notion of vulgar time. This starting point grows from the observation that public art is easily understood more as a spatial rather than a temporal entity. However, several individual artworks that utilize different options of media technology (moving images, sounds, lights) emphasize their own constructedness as spatio-temporal experiences. The key issue in these examples seems to be the notion of movement and how the given artwork either speeds up or slows down while recreating an audio-visual negotiation with the environment in which it has been established. Some of the public artworks in Turku, Finland are studied in more detail from this temporal perspective.
The article discusses the relationship between time and public art beginning with the heideggerian notion of vulgar time. This starting point grows from the observation that public art is easily understood more as a spatial rather than a temporal entity. However, several individual artworks that utilize different options of media technology (moving images, sounds, lights) emphasize their own constructedness as spatio-temporal experiences. The key issue in these examples seems to be the notion of movement and how the given artwork either speeds up or slows down while recreating an audio-visual negotiation with the environment in which it has been established. Some of the public artworks in Turku, Finland are studied in more detail from this temporal perspective.
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