Land scape
Liana Psarologaki
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
smells to travel and evoke memories, carries sound vibrations almost creating and impression of a virtual space, and temporally materialises light through floating dust and haze.
The variety of visual and sound elements you merge together creates unpredictable affects to the viewers: how important is the role of chance in your process?
There is a very distinct methodology behind my recent work, with a clear intention to break the habits that people establish around space. The work aims to create a condition both spatial and temporal where the audience seizes to explore space in auto-pilot mode. This may result in a range of different responses – emotional and physical. Each individual will think, and react in unique non-patterned ways. This creates a new spatiality by itself; one that is fragile and interchangeable; a spatial serendipity that cannot be presupposed or reproduced, and manifests art as situated practice; as localised occurrence.
One of the hallmarks of your work is the capability to create a direct involvement with the viewers, who are urged to evolve from a condition of mere spectatorship. So, before leaving this conversation we would like to pose a question about the nature of the relationship of your art with your audience. Do you consider the issue of audience reception as being a crucial component of your decision-making process, in terms of what type of language is used in a particular context?
This is a very difficult question. I always start with an idea triggered by a site visit, regardless of the outcome being site-responsive or not. There are no baseline assumptions then. Each locus prompts a complex set of making actions; some highly practical, some purely philosophical