Article:
A Plant’s View. Documenting Presence in Olafur Eliasson’s “Your uncertain archive”

Author(s): Eriksson, Olivia

Abstract

This article examines how presence and participation in contemporary installation art is reconfigured in online documentation. Considering documentation as an essential component of the art experience, it discusses its ramifications from an artistic as well as an institutional perspective. Using internationally renowned installation artist Olafur Eliasson as example, the article focuses on the documentation of his large-scale installation works in the ongoing art project “Your Uncertain Archive” (https://olafureliasson.net/uncertain). This online archive gathers Eliasson’s artistic output in one (virtual) place, using various techniques to capture and expand on the original on-site art experience. Special attention is devoted to the video documentation of the recent exhibition Life (Fondation Beyeler, 2021), which uses subjective shots, masking and optical filters in order to make the claims of the exhibition more accessible to online audiences.

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Eriksson, Olivia: A Plant’s View. Documenting Presence in Olafur Eliasson’s “Your uncertain archive”. In: MAP - Media | Archive | Performance, Jg. 14 (2024), Nr. 1, S. 1-12. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23002.
@ARTICLE{Eriksson2024,
 author = {Eriksson, Olivia},
 title = {A Plant’s View. Documenting Presence in Olafur Eliasson’s “Your uncertain archive”},
 year = 2024,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/23002}",
 volume = 14,
 address = {Leipzig},
 journal = {MAP - Media | Archive | Performance},
 number = 1,
 pages = {1--12},
}
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