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What You Are/ Instalation in Progress
Marek Milde, What You Are, 2007, site-specific, interactive installation for Klapper Hall, text by Walt Whitman, wallpaper, tape, dust
“What You Are” is interactive site-specific installation, designed to engage the visitors and the space of the gallery. It uncovers an element of historical identity of the site, which got lost by its rebuilding and renaming.
“What You Are” reveals hidden historical connection between the poet Walt Whitman, and Klapper Hall; formerly the Walt Whitman Building and Museum.
The work in progress begins with a white covered gallery floor by the opening.
Fragment of Whitman’s poem gradually appears on the floor as a text.
It becomes readable according to the intensity of the visitor’s movement, and the amount of dust brought in to the gallery on their shoes during the show.
Walt Whitman’s poetry addresses the theme of identity and place. It is creating a concept of internalizing a place.
“ O lands! All so dear to me — what you are,
(whatever it is, )
I become a part of that, whatever it is “
”American Feuillage”, 1860, “Leaves of Grass”.
My installation creates place that encourages visitors to be involved and gain a consciousness for historical context. The place may become internalized and personalized. Participant’s accumulated presence and activity reveals in the dust the poem hidden under the surface.
What You Are/ Instalation in Progress
Marek Milde, What You Are, 2007, site-specific, interactive installation for Klapper Hall, text by Walt Whitman, wallpaper, tape, dust
“What You Are” is interactive site-specific installation, designed to engage the visitors and the space of the gallery. It uncovers an element of historical identity of the site, which got lost by its rebuilding and renaming.
“What You Are” reveals hidden historical connection between the poet Walt Whitman, and Klapper Hall; formerly the Walt Whitman Building and Museum.
The work in progress begins with a white covered gallery floor by the opening.
Fragment of Whitman’s poem gradually appears on the floor as a text.
It becomes readable according to the intensity of the visitor’s movement, and the amount of dust brought in to the gallery on their shoes during the show.
Walt Whitman’s poetry addresses the theme of identity and place. It is creating a concept of internalizing a place.
“ O lands! All so dear to me — what you are,
(whatever it is, )
I become a part of that, whatever it is “
”American Feuillage”, 1860, “Leaves of Grass”.
My installation creates place that encourages visitors to be involved and gain a consciousness for historical context. The place may become internalized and personalized. Participant’s accumulated presence and activity reveals in the dust the poem hidden under the surface.