Ecotechnology and the Receptive Surface
Ecotechnology and the Receptive Surface
This chapter examines artworks that place the spectator in an immersive situation. It explores the works of James Turrell, Chris Drury, and Olafur Eliasson, whose works are known for their earthen enclosures or installations saturated by light and the use of colored filters and reflective mirrors. It investigates how their work offers unencumbered access to natural phenomena as they are structured to restrain the viewer at the threshold of elemental manifestations such as sky, light, atmosphere, water, and color. It also argues that the phenomenological positioning of the spectator, surrounded and separated at the same time from elementals, expresses a necessary withdrawal from earth that opens the senses to the dynamism and plenitude of earth.
Keywords: spectator, immersive situation, James Turrell, Chris Drury, Olafur Eliasson, elemental manifestations, phenomenological positioning
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