Installation Art Thursday

In honour of Installation Art Thursday (I'll go back to serious blogging sometime, I promise) this blog entry - well, everything below this paragraph - must be read in an unusual way. Alternate lines. And when you get to the bottom, go up one line and then it's alternate lines reading from bottom-to-top. So if there were only five lines altogether, you'd read lines 1, 3, 5, 4 and 2 in order for the post to make sense. Blank lines not included. And I didn't know how to separate out the paragraphs, so there's a blank line after the end of each paragraph that was in the original text (and before the end of each paragraph when you get to reading bottom-to-top). Have fun :)

So what is Installation Art anyway? According to this article,
more. We'll see :)
installation art "resists definition" because of the broadness of the
But occasionally for the novelty factor I wouldn't mind doing some
genre. But the basic idea is summed up by the idea that it "explores

some text paragraphs.
the notion that space and time are, in and of themselves, fodder
download a large file and listen to it than to read or scan through
for artistic consumption." Installation art is site-specific and, if I've
an audblog simply because there'll be far fewer people prepared to
interpreted this correctly, cannot exist outside of its display
quote...and I wouldn't like to put anything terribly important in
because the very surroundings contribute to it (and are sometimes
like lack of searchability within the entry, lack of being able to
an integral part of the piece).

towards solving that one for any listeners). And then there's things
Examples of installation art include Martin Creed's (Turner
the problem with hyperlinks (although I hope I went some way
Prize-winning) Lights Going On and Off in a Gallery, in which
And then there's all the problems inherent with audio blogs, mainly
the lights in the gallery were switched on and off every thirty

will not be pretty.
seconds, Richard Wilson's 20:50 where a lake of sump oil that
pauses, I won't have any idea of where I'm heading and the result
reflects the ceiling of the gallery is experienced by walking along
go along, and I freeze up. There's a lot of um-ing and ah-ing, messy
an enclosed jetty whose waist-high walls hold the oil up, Damien
ad lib, do a speech from bullet points or even just make it up as I
Hirst's In And Out Of Love, built in a two-storey building - on one
Public reading, not so much of a problem, but ask me to improvise,
floor was a climate-controlled habitat filled with live butterflies; on
equivalent to public speaking for me and I Can't Do public speaking.
the walls were large blank canvases. The other floor contained the
more audioblogs. I'm not sure, mainly because this is practically
same furniture, but here the butterflies were dead and affixed
And now, to answer Russ's question as to whether I'll be doing
to bright monochromatic canvases. It seems that you often have to

naturally.
move "through or around installations".

clever. However, any that you do see, I'll take full credit for,
Please bear in mind that all this is paraphrased and very possibly
amusing mixups from one line to the next, because I'm not that
misinterpreted seeing as I only heard of installation art this
And just to let you know, when I wrote this I wasn't aiming for any
morning. In any case, my interpretation of installation art has led to

Please don't ask of what. If I find out, I'll let you know :)
this rather unconventionally structured blog entry, during the

statement.
reading of which you will find yourselves constantly having to
you'd got up to before you lost your place. This piece of art is a
readjust, reassess the situation and re-examine just where the hell