Optical Architectures is a series of works that give rise to performance through elaborate fabrications of optical materials used in my studio such as glass, acrylic, or natural materials such as water, for instance, combined with optical technologies such as moving light, projections, simple technologies and/or natural light. Unlike performative environments – optical architectures, belong to series of installation art, defined as immersive environments, where time flows and the audience experiences its duration through the passage of light. The intricate formations of objects, (that come to life through often very labor-intensive processes) and that I design for the landscapes of optical architectures, may be viewed through a term established by Bruno as “virtual condition.” This condition positions the understanding of materiality outside of materials themselves within the transformational process of reactivation. In this sense, the designs of the optical architectures are similar to the materiality of the cinematic apparatus and may be viewed as expanded forms of the cinematic screen.
River
is an immersive installation that transforms the entire gallery space, along with the audience’s bodies and minds, into an immersive experience of a river current running through the darkened space. The installation consists of multiple conic screens installed throughout the gallery, along with multiple projections of water currents coiling throughout the installation, creating an inward-directed space. Equipped with cast glass reflectors, the cones are suspended from the ceiling structure on a grid, leaving an approximately two-foot space in between for audiences to walk comfortably within the landscape of the installation. The number of units varies from 28 to 42, according to the availability of space. The optical illusion created by the spiralling cones creates the premise for a possibility of perception, which encompasses the viewers’ entire physical being and immerses their minds in the contemplative state of being submerged within the coiling currents.
Technical Information:
4 projectors of same resolution and lumens
36 conical glass structures max.
Shipped in 2’x 3’x 4’ crate
Space Requirements
Variable depending on the number of units installed
Credits
Date of Creation: 2009
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
Supported by
(CIAM) Centre interuniversitaire en arts médiatiques & Hexagram
(OAC) Ontrario Council for the Arts
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.ca
Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada www.estevanartgallery.com
Gallery de Matane, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.galerieartmatane.org
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada http://www.definitelysuperior.com/
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Baie – Saint Paul, QC, Canada http://www.macbsp.com
WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON, Canada http://www.kennedygallery.org
Deep Waters I.
is an immersive environment formed by reflected light, architectural elements and water. The actual installation is composed of eight large water containers, positioned on the floor and filled with water. Above each water pool, a long acrylic cylinder is suspended from the ceiling. Alternatively, there may be a plumbing structure installed (in place of the cylinders), releasing a drop of water approximately every five seconds. The drops fall to the pools with a gentle dripping sound, breaking the water surface into ripples. The ripples are reflected, in their enlarged form, onto white vellum screens placed around the water containers. Viewers are invited to walk between the pools or sit on benches and experience the phenomena of the reflected light, movement, water and sound. The minimalist nature of this work and all of its elements are employed to embrace a preconceived notion of depth, which begins at the surface and continues on to imaginary dimensions within the contemplative mind of the audience. The work is reflective of my early childhood memories in Eastern Bohemia.
Technical Information
6 low-tech theatre lights
8 steel water pools 5’ in diameter
8 acrylic water containers 2’ each
Plumbing systems installed in the ceiling (alternatively)
Double sided velum screens 360-degree perimeter of the gallery space
Other design screens
Space Requirements
Variable depending on the number of units
Min. 15’ x 20’
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006-2008
Lenka Nováková: Creation / Concept
Special thanks, Francis Anjo
photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
NAC (Niagara Artist Run Centre), Saint Catherine’s, ON, Canada http://www.nac.org
PAFA Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA http://www.pafa.org/museum
In Deep Waters II.,
I explore the notions of depth and, consequently, a fall of an object into the water, by employing an elaborate design of multiple projection screens to layer the projected image and recreate the lustrous, transparent and reflective qualities of a dark water surface. The screens are custom-designed and made with monofilament, woven between two 8’x 8’aluminum bars. Once in the gallery, the screens are set in a row, approximately three feet apart, creating multiple repetitive images. The audience is invited to walk around and in between the screens to experience a layered optical illusion of the projected image, which captures the repeated action of rocks falling into a calm night river, breaking the water surface into a pulsing ripple of light before it proceeds towards the dark bottom. The video was filmed in the middle of the night by the quiet Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, PA, US, where I mounted a camera on the railing of a bridge. Every eight minutes, the video goes dark and the screens return to the calm, uninterrupted water surface of the night. In this work, I attempt to explore the phenomenon of depth as an imaginary and psychological dimension of the unknown and the invisible, inviting my audience to immerse themselves in the imaginary realms of the projected space.
Technical Info:
8 screens 8’ x 8’ (stretched between the floor and ceiling)
2 projectors (same resolution/lumens)
2 speakers (delay pedal provided)
1 DVD (audio and video) 8 minutes looped
Shipped in 8’ x 2’ x 2’ crate
Space Requirements
15’ x 20’ minimum or larger
Dark walls
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006-2008
Lenka Nováková - Concept/Creation
Marinko Jareb - Audio
Assistance: Francis Anjo
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Selected Exhibitions
Niagara Artist Company, St. Catherine’s, Canada http://www.nac.org
PAFA Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada www.definitelysu
Ed Video, Edifying Edifice, Festival of Moving Image, Guelph, ON, Canada
Espace F, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.espacef.org
Deep Waters II.
In Deep Waters II., I explore the notion of depth and consequently the notion of a fall by employing an elaborate design of multiple projection screens to layer the projected image and recreate the lustrous, transparent and reflective qualities of a dark water surface. Eight minutes of looped video footage of rocks falling in the middle of the night into the quiet Schuylkill River is projected across and through eight large water-like screens. The screens are fabricated in monofilament, woven between two 8’x 8’aluminum bars. These are set in a row, approximately three feet apart, and create multiple repetitive images. The audience is invited to walk around and between the screens. The projected image captures the repeated action of rocks falling into the calm night river, breaking the water surface into a pulsing ripple of light before it proceeds towards the dark bottom. Every eight minutes the DVD goes dark and the screens return back to the appearance of a calm, uninterrupted water surface of the night. In this work, I attempt to explore the phenomenon of depth as imaginary and psychological dimension of the unknown and the invisible.
Technical Info:
8 screens 8’ x 8’ (stretched between the floor and ceiling)
2 projectors (same resolution/lumens)
1 DVD (audio and video) 8 minutes looped
(Darkened gallery space installation of black fabric)
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006-2008
Lenka Nováková - Concept/Creation
Marinko Jareb - Audio
Assistance: Francis Anjo
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Selected Exhibitions
Niagara Artist Company, St. Catherine’s, Canada http://www.nac.org
PAFA Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA www.pafa.org/museum
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada www.definitelysu
Ed Video, Edifying Edifice, Festival of Moving Image, Guelph, ON, Canada
Espace F, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.espacef.org
Deep Waters I.
Deep Waters I. is an immersive environment formed by reflected light, architectural elements and water. The actual installation is composed of eight large water containers, 5’ diameter each, fabricated in 1/8” steel, positioned on the floor and filled with water. Above every water pool, there is a 2’ long acrylic cylinder suspended from the ceiling. Alternatively, there may be a plumbing structure installed (in place of the cylinders), releasing a drop of water approximately every five seconds. The drops fall to the pools with a gentle tipping sound, breaking the water surface into ripples. These are being reflected, in their enlarged form, onto white vellum screens placed around the water containers. Viewers are invited to walk between the pools or sit on benches and experience the phenomena of the reflected light, movement, water and sound. The minimal nature of this work and all its elements are employed to embrace the preconceived notion of depth, which begins at the surface and continues to imaginary dimensions within the contemplative mind of the audience.
Link to work description: http://www.lenkanovak.com/works/deep-water
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=62&v=Le9BT0zU18k
Duration of video: 1:22 min.
Technical Information:
6 theatre lights
8 steel water pools
8 acrylic water containers
Plumbing systems
Double sided velum screens 360-degree perimeter of the gallery space
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006-2008
Lenka Nováková: Creation / Concept
Francis Anjo: Assistance
photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
NAC (Niagara Artist Run Centre), Saint Catherine’s, ON, Canada http://www.nac.org
PAFA Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA http://www.pafa.org/museum
Windows in the Sky
In this installation, a video recording of the late summer afternoon sky is projected throughout several cast glass lenses suspended from ceiling in long monofilament fixtures and filled with water. Reflective water surface is used in this project to place reflection of moving fragments of clouds on the wall to express passage of time, using the metaphor of the window as a play.
Glass lenses were casted during my residency in Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, WA, USA.
Production
Technical Info:
3 Projectors
2 DVD loop
2 large crystal glass bowls 3' diameter
2 suspensions / woven in monofilament
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006
Concept / Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Cambridge Galleries at Queen’s Square, Cambridge, ON http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca/cambridge.taf?section=3
2005 Tannery Row, Bufford, GA, USA
Hearing the Grass Grow is an immersive environment project attempting to create space in which one can feel as if walking through the grass meadow. The project is reflective of early childhood memories of walking through the grass fields of Eastern Bohemia.
Production
Glass containers filled with water reflect and refract projected images. Projections of walking shadows of people are being distributed around the perimeter of the gallery as they proceed through the installation.
Technical Information:
Glass structures (with water)
Supporting metal structures
Grass containers
Interactive cameras
Projectors
Credits
Concept / Creation: Lenka Novakova
Day by Day is an immersive installation composed of eight pieces of a glass sheet 4’ x 3’ suspended from the ceiling. Creating a central architecture structure the glass serves as a large reflector and refractor of the moving image. Four source projectors that are aimed at the them are projecting images of boats appearing and disappearing in a foggy harbour. Prisms installed in front of each projector bring in a rainbow once in a while. In addition, a live feed camera redistributes multiplied images of the audience throughout the installation and blurs their shadows with the ambiguous landscape of wandering boats.
Production
Technical Information:
Multiple glass sheets (8 sheets 4’ x 3’), suspension structures
4 projectors
4 DVD players of Mac mini (DVD loop 5 min)
Credits
Date of Creation 2012
Concept / Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Selected Exhibitions
2012 Centre d’exposition L’Imagiere, Gatineu, QC, Canada
Three person exhibition, Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Lenka Novakova and Gisela Restrepo,
Curated by Katarzyna Basta, Collaborateur: LAMIC (laboratoire de museologie et d’ingenierie de la culture) http://www.limagier.qc.ca/
2012 USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway – research/creation residency
Production Project “Day to Day ”Exhibition with Kasia Basta at L’Imagier, Gatineu, QC
http://www.usf.no/default.asp?side=program
http://www.limagier.qc.ca/
River
River is an immersive installation transforming the entire gallery space along with the audience’s bodies and minds into a submersive experience of a river current running through the darkened gallery space. The installation consists of multiple conic screens installed throughout the gallery, forming an inward-directed space and creating the premise for a possibility of perception which encompasses the viewers’ entire physical being. The cones are suspended from the ceiling structure on a grid leaving approximately two-foot space in between for audiences to walk comfortably within the landscape of the installation. The number of the units varies from twenty-eight to forty-two according to the availability of space.
Link to work description: http://www.lenkanovak.com/works/river
Link to video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegaGg--7o0
Link to video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZfPOPINWU
Duration of video 1. 33 min.
Duration of video 2. 1:22 min.
Technical Information:
4 projectors
4 DVD players
1 DVD (8 min loop)
36 conical glass structures
Credits
Date of Creation: 2009
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
CIAM http://www.ciam-arts.org/
OAC http://www.arts.on.ca/site4.aspx
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.ca
Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada www.estevanartgallery.com
Gallery de Matane, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.galerieartmatane.org
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada http://www.definitelysuperior.com/
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Baie – Saint Paul, QC, Canada http://www.macbsp.com
WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON, Canada http://www.kennedygallery.org
Windows in the Sky
is an installation formed by two large lenses cast from crystal glass, filled with water up to their rim. The lenses are hanging in the air, suspended from the ceiling by fabricated monofilament fixtures. While the conical structures serve as projection screens, the lenses reflect the projected moving image onto the wall letting the reflection of the image shiver once in a while via slight movement on the water surface. A small field of smaller lenses designed in similar manner often accompanies the couple of large lenses. Two-channel video developed for the complete installation divides between clouds floating through the sky and the setting sun. While the clouds are being projected through the large lenses the setting sun is projected through the smaller ones. Using the metaphor of a window in the sky the installation attempts to envelope the audiences in the contemplative state reflecting on the passage of time inspired primarily by my frequent air travel.
Technical Info:
2 Projectors
2 DVDs (10 min looped video)
2 large crystal glass bowls 3' diameter 20 kg each
2 Suspension structures woven in monofilament
Space Requirements:
Min. 15’x 20’
Credits
Date of Creation: 2006
Concept / Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Supported by
Pilchuck Glass School, Seattle, WA, USA.
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Cambridge Galleries at Queen’s Square, Cambridge, ON http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca/cambridge.taf?section=3
2005 Tannery Row, Bufford, GA, USA
Contemplation of the Duet of River and Sky
Clouds swim the sky slowly in shifting schools—
Once in a while, a rainbow backbends, colors rippling.
Notice the flocks of golden leaves gliding by,
The river a solo song until it mirrors the sky.
Every morning, the sun—the way it projects itself,
Making everything—even a stone—into a prism.
Perhaps the water’s currents, as they catch the light,
Like waves of air stirring the winds, are not unlike thoughts
As they move through the sky—or is it the river—of the mind,
The slow turn of each word flowing into the next
In a limitless expansion unbounded by anything
Other than an eye that believes it can shut out the world.
No, the sky lives in our lungs; the rivers in our veins.
--Julie Dunlop
Contemplation of the Duet of River and Sky
This installation was conceptualized and designed during my fellowship with the Corning Museum of Glass in New York focused on optics. The installation is composed of two large glass prisms cast from crystal glass from New Zealand, delivered specifically for this project. The crystal glass is used to explore the duality of the river and the sky through optical illusion and projections. Configured specifically for a black-box gallery space, the installation creates an environment where the optical qualities of the prisms redistribute moving images of the running or alternately calm river surface and the floating clouds in the sky around the walls of the space. This presentatation confuses the concepts of above and below, and plays on the ambiguities of the actual and the virtual with its reflected images of the sky floating on the water surfaces. As the reflected images of the sky and the water appear and move on the floor, the ceiling and the walls of the small black-box gallery space, a large rainbow appears within the same space. The audience is invited to explore the optical phenomenon and contemplate the following poem by Julie Dunlop, illustrating one possible interpretation of the duet.
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Technical Information:
2 projectors of same resolution and lumens
2 glass prisms 36"
Shipped in 1’x 3.5’x 1’ crate
Space Requirements
12'x15' minimum or larger
Credits
Date of Creation: 2012
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Supported by
The Corning Museum of Glass
(CIAM) Centre interuniversitaire en arts médiatiques & Hexagram
(OAC) Ontrario Council for the Arts
Day by Day
is an immersive installation composed of eight glass sheets suspended from the ceiling, creating a central architectural structure within the gallery space. The glass sheets serve as large reflectors of projected moving images, representing boats appearing and disappearing in a foggy harbour of Bergen, Norway. Small prisms installed in front of each projector intermittently produce a rainbow . In addition, a live-feed camera redistributes multiplied images of the audience and blurs their moving shadows into the ambiguous landscape of the wandering boats.
Technical Information
8 glass sheet panels 4’ x 3’& suspension structures
4 projectors
4 DVD players or Mac mini (DVD loop 5 min each channel)
Space Requirements
Min. 20’ x 20’
Selected Exhibitions
2012 Centre d’exposition L’Imagiere, Gatineu, QC, Canada
Three person exhibition, Pavitra Wickramasinghe, Lenka Novakova and Gisela Restrepo,
Curated by Katarzyna Basta, Collaborateur: LAMIC (laboratoire de museologie et d’ingenierie de la culture) http://www.limagier.qc.ca/
2012 USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway – research/creation residency
Production Project “Day to Day ”Exhibition with Kasia Basta at L’Imagier, Gatineu, QC
http://www.usf.no/default.asp?side=program
http://www.limagier.qc.ca/
Credits
Date of Creation 2012
Concept / Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Supported by
USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway
Credits
Concept / Creation Lenka Novakova
Hearing the Grass Grow
is an immersive installation project that envelops the audience in an atmosphere akin to walking through a grassy meadow. The environment is formed by using several glass containers filled with water, reflecting and refracting projected images of moving grass. Projections of the audience’s walking shadows are distributed around the perimeter of the gallery, which blend in with the projections of the moving grass fields. The project is a reflection on my early childhood memories of running through the meadows of Eastern Bohemia and being immersed within this fondly remembered landscape.
Technical Information
Glass containers filled with water
Corresponding number of supporting metal structures
2 Live-feed interactive cameras
2 Projectors (DVD)
Space Requirements
Min. 15’x20’
Time is walking by
is an installation that employs multiple mirrors as projection screens to alter the projected video into an optical illusion, confusing the direction of the moving image via reflection and refraction. Multiple videos were shot in Quebec City for this project. Here, I chose a double-spiralled stairway that connects the Old and New towns of Quebec to observe the interconnection of the two eras of the town in action. The moving images are the outcome of careful and patient documentation of a changing shadow of the staircase cast on the façade of a facing building, a sidewalk below the staircase or a road, depending on the angle of the light at each specific hour that I visited the site. The time of day changes not only the shape of the projected shadows but also the dynamics of the passersby, be they rushing to work, leisurely walking with a friend or a group or stopping at the top of the staircase to overlook the city. The edited version of multiple videos shot over a period of two weeks was edited and projected through mirrors installed in each corner of the gallery to create an optical illusion of these movements.
Technical Information
4 Mirrors 3’x 4’ placed in corners of the gallery
1 Mirror construction in the middle of the gallery
1 Corresponding ceiling suspension structure
4 projectors coupled with 4 channel dvd (8 min. each)
2 projectors combined with live camera
Credits
Concept/Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Space Requirement
Minimum 20’ x 15’
Selected Exhibitions
2010 La Chambre Blanche Quebec, Quebec, Canada
Production and Exhibition Residency
http://www.chambreblanche.qc.ca/EN/
http://www.chambreblanche.qc.ca/EN/event_detail.asp?cleLangue=2&cleProgType=1&cleProg=813713092&CurrentPer=Future
The City Can Be Beautiful
is a video project that I developed while pursuing my fellowship on optics at Brooklyn Glass in New York. It forms series of work exploring how the city landscape may be perceived from different points of view and recreated in a gallery setting in its altered version via projected image and optical instruments such as mirrors, prisms, etc. Whereas the first project, Time is Walking By developed in Quebec City is looking at confusing the directions of passerby via the projected walking shadows and mirrors The City Can Be Beautiful is attempting to create similar effect by looking at the disappearing landscape of Manhattan from aboard the Staten Island ferry crossing. As the ferry moves away from the dock the cityscape disappears into the fogy morning and the open water landscape begins to fill with boats as it looses the sight of the city. Once the video is completed in the gallery setting the projected image into the mirror confuses the direction and blurs the perception of whether the city is appearing or disappearing.
Suported by
Brooklyn Glass, New York
Technical Information
4 Mirrors 3’x 4’ placed in corners of the gallery
1 Mirror construction in the middle of the gallery
1 Corresponding ceiling suspension structure
4 projectors coupled with 4 channel dvd (8 min. each)
2 projectors combined with live camera
Credits
Concept/Creation: Lenka Novakova
Photo/Video Credit © Lenka Novakova
Space Requirement
Minimum 20’ x 15’
Designs
is a video project that I developed while pursuing my fellowship on optics at Brooklyn Glass in New York. It forms series of work exploring how the city landscape may be perceived from different points of view and recreated in a gallery setting in its altered version via projected image and optical instruments such as mirrors, prisms, etc. Whereas the first project, Time is Walking By developed in Quebec City is looking at confusing the directions of passerby via the projected walking shadows and mirrors The
Dimensions of Light
is a video project that I developed while pursuing my fellowship on optics at Brooklyn Glass in New York. It forms series of work exploring how the city landscape may be perceived from different points of view and recreated in a gallery setting in its altered version via projected image and optical instruments such as mirrors, prisms, etc. Whereas the first project, Time is Walking By developed in Quebec City is looking at confusing the directions of passerby via the projected walking shadows and mirrors The
Fragments of Light
is a video project that I developed while pursuing my fellowship on optics at Brooklyn Glass in New York. It forms series of work exploring how the city landscape may be perceived from different points of view and recreated in a gallery setting in its altered version via projected image and optical instruments such as mirrors, prisms, etc. Whereas the first project, Time is Walking By developed in Quebec City is looking at confusing the directions of passerby via the projected walking shadows and mirrors The
River
River is an immersive installation transforming the entire gallery space along with the audience’s bodies and minds into a submersive experience of a river current running through the darkened gallery space. The installation consists of multiple conic screens installed throughout the gallery, forming an inward-directed space and creating the premise for a possibility of perception which encompasses the viewers’ entire physical being. The cones are suspended from the ceiling structure on a grid leaving approximately two-foot space in between for audiences to walk comfortably within the landscape of the installation. The number of the units varies from twenty-eight to forty-two according to the availability of space.
Link to work description: http://www.lenkanovak.com/works/river
Link to video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegaGg--7o0
Link to video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZfPOPINWU
Duration of video 1. 33 min.
Duration of video 2. 1:22 min.
Technical Information:
4 projectors
4 DVD players
1 DVD (8 min loop)
36 conical glass structures
Credits
Date of Creation: 2009
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
CIAM http://www.ciam-arts.org/
OAC http://www.arts.on.ca/site4.aspx
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.ca
Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada www.estevanartgallery.com
Gallery de Matane, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.galerieartmatane.org
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada http://www.definitelysuperior.com/
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Baie – Saint Paul, QC, Canada http://www.macbsp.com
WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON, Canada http://www.kennedygallery.org
River
River is an immersive installation transforming the entire gallery space along with the audience’s bodies and minds into a submersive experience of a river current running through the darkened gallery space. The installation consists of multiple conic screens installed throughout the gallery, forming an inward-directed space and creating the premise for a possibility of perception which encompasses the viewers’ entire physical being. The cones are suspended from the ceiling structure on a grid leaving approximately two-foot space in between for audiences to walk comfortably within the landscape of the installation. The number of the units varies from twenty-eight to forty-two according to the availability of space.
Link to work description: http://www.lenkanovak.com/works/river
Link to video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegaGg--7o0
Link to video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZfPOPINWU
Duration of video 1. 33 min.
Duration of video 2. 1:22 min.
Technical Information:
4 projectors
4 DVD players
1 DVD (8 min loop)
36 conical glass structures
Credits
Date of Creation: 2009
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
CIAM http://www.ciam-arts.org/
OAC http://www.arts.on.ca/site4.aspx
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.ca
Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada www.estevanartgallery.com
Gallery de Matane, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.galerieartmatane.org
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada http://www.definitelysuperior.com/
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Baie – Saint Paul, QC, Canada http://www.macbsp.com
WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON, Canada http://www.kennedygallery.org
River
River is an immersive installation transforming the entire gallery space along with the audience’s bodies and minds into a submersive experience of a river current running through the darkened gallery space. The installation consists of multiple conic screens installed throughout the gallery, forming an inward-directed space and creating the premise for a possibility of perception which encompasses the viewers’ entire physical being. The cones are suspended from the ceiling structure on a grid leaving approximately two-foot space in between for audiences to walk comfortably within the landscape of the installation. The number of the units varies from twenty-eight to forty-two according to the availability of space.
Link to work description: http://www.lenkanovak.com/works/river
Link to video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NegaGg--7o0
Link to video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpZfPOPINWU
Duration of video 1. 33 min.
Duration of video 2. 1:22 min.
Technical Information:
4 projectors
4 DVD players
1 DVD (8 min loop)
36 conical glass structures
Credits
Date of Creation: 2009
Lenka Nováková: concept, creation
CIAM http://www.ciam-arts.org/
OAC http://www.arts.on.ca/site4.aspx
Photo/video credit © Lenka Nováková
Selected Exhibitions
Fofa Gallery, Montreal, QC, Canada fofagallery.concordia.ca/ehtml/2009/11lenkanovakova.h
Canada, Hexagram Black Box, Montreal, QC, Canada hexagram.concordia.ca
Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada grimsbypublicartgallery.blogspot.ca
Estevan Art Gallery and Museum, Estevan, SK, Canada www.estevanartgallery.com
Gallery de Matane, Matane, QC, Canada http://www.galerieartmatane.org
Definitely Superior, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada http://www.definitelysuperior.com/
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Baie – Saint Paul, QC, Canada http://www.macbsp.com
WKP Kennedy Art Gallery, North Bay, ON, Canada http://www.kennedygallery.org