Olafur Eliasson. Space Is Process

Description

From the immense golden sun of The Weather Project at the Tate Modern to his New York Waterfalls, Olafur Eliasson has created large-scale installations that situate viewers in the ambiguous zones between communal and individual awareness. Filmed over a period of five years, this program follows the Danish-Icelandic artist's work in locations around the world. English-language interviews with Eliasson are interwoven with scenes from his studio as well as the unique, wide-ranging locations in which he builds sculptures, shoots photographs, and constructs intriguing automatic drawing machines. A central focus of his work emerges: how the spaces of our world are shaped by social, ideological, natural, and artificial structures.

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52 min

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Date of Publication

[2010], c2009

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Films on Demand

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