Now: No nights in summer, no days in winter, 1994, at the Gwangju Biennale
On view until 9 November
Preview of Contact is content, 2014, on view as part of Riverbed at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Your uncertain archive!: drift, explore, connect – embrace uncertainty
"I wanted the chance to allow for a higher degree of negotiability, and also that little bit of discomfort in being slightly lost sometimes. Not too lost but lost in the sense of having to work a little harder to find your path.... We're so used to commodified home pages, everything is about predictability, in order to make people feel safe."
Olafur Eliasson on Your uncertain archive.
Movement microscope, 2011, on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Movement microscope, a film by Olafur Eliasson, depicts a normal day at Studio Olafur Eliasson, with one major difference: Eliasson invited 'movement specialists' (street performers, mimes, dancers) to come perform a kind of spatio-temporal intervention throughout the studio during the work day.
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Movement microscope is now on view as part of Riverbed, at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, until 4 January, 2015.
Watch the film online here:
View from the studio
View of Know-how kaleidoscopes, 2014, Kabelparken, Copenhagen
Video: Bo Tengberg
Model room, 2003, now on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
Ping-pong on the façade of the Harpa Reykjavik Concert Hall
Astrolafur: anti-gravity dance
Active memory: from the anti-gravity archive
Excerpt from: Your Gravitational Now
Originally published in David Featherstone and Joe Painter, eds.,
Spatial Politics: Essays for Doreen Massey (Chichester, 2013), pp.125–32.
Imagine standing on the vast banks of black sand just south of Vatnajökull,
the largest glacier in Iceland, looking northwards onto the tip of Skeidarárjökull,
one of its glacier tongues. From this particular point, the wide glacier takes up
a large part of the horizon, and its gravel- and ash-covered nose sprawls into an
ungraspable mass. Abstraction and impalpability pervade, filtered through your
here-and-now body. Standing right in front of the glacier, you may first begin to
feel a degree of intimacy and familiarity. The experience of proceeding onto the
glacier itself is a moment of intense physical drama. Pressurised by the mass
of ice, a sub-glacial water current causes the otherwise dry black sand right in
front of the tongue to undulate like a fatigued trampoline. Cautiously trying to
cross the few yards of billowing sandy surface to the glacier itself, you develop
a funny, anti-gravity-like gait – a bit like moon-walking. Hoping to defy physics,
you make yourself light, distribute your weight as evenly as possible, heart
pounding. Quicksand below threatens to pull you in.
‘Contact is content is a visual narrative that takes you up close and far away, that asks you to turn around, to look at the landscape anew, to look at yourself. As the material came together, content arose through contact between landscapes and artworks, bodies and weather conditions, light and relative darkness.’
Olafur Eliasson
Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei's Moon