Dan Flavin
Have just been reading reviews by Francesca, Maceij, Martin, Kevin & Sandra - am sorry to be missing out on lectures right now but happened to have a spare hour between history and TS so went to the Dan Flavin show at the Haywood.
On the whole I appreciated the show - given our pre-occupation with presenting light it was very useful to see light installations in a large gallery space. The Haywood is a fantastic, minimalist space for these types of presentations (I saw Rebecca Horn's exhibition last year and the space lent itself very well to her work too).
I think it provides good reference for our next stage in Inter3, I know I was pre-occupied with making a useful light before Xmas and am now moving much more towards provoking a reaction from the application of light on and within spatial form. I particularly liked Flavin's work that play with elements of space - boundaries, edges, etc. I also liked the idea of sound and light - the nano's given out have 6 tracks to accompany the 6 sections of the show. We should certainly consider exploring light as a sound at some stage in our work!
However, many of the pieces seemed to me to be pre-occupied with the Fluorescent tube rather than the light or impact of light, he talks about his aim to explore space and structure with these light forms and yet there's a lack of investigative depth to much of the work presented, I didn't feel he'd exploited the medium of light sufficiently to raise architectural debate. I was also disappointed with the sketches and drawings - these were layout sketches and again showed no depth of thought or investigation into the effects of light or raison d'etre for his portfolio.