Proposal for The Sculpture Center - As Is

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Proposal for The Sculpture Center

This work is proposed as a light installation for The Sculpture Center's new home in Long Island City for the exhibition "As IS". The installation is intended to transform the western underground corridor of the Sculpture Center Building. The western underground corridor of this building is a narrow passageway approximately 40 inches wide, 60 or more feet in length. The eastern wall of the corridor contains more than two dozen communicating apertures or 'vaults', some with stall-like partitions. These apertures and partitions will be treated with the addition of electronic controls and light generating elements: fluorescent or incandescent lamps, reflected video or neon, and a combination of reflective or transparent surfaces to create an animated curtain wall of light. Sensors will be used to activate individual or groups of lighting elements within these openings, to animate the passage of a visitor through the space. The animation of light will proceed in such a way that the lighted apertures or partitions will always elude a person moving through the illuminated space, providing the indigenous wall surface 'as is' wherever one would choose to walk.

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