The Modern Civilization in Contemporary Installation Art

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The history of art has been around before written language. In the ancient time, people drew images of hunting and pregnant women because food and reproduction were the most crucial factors to survive during these periods. However, in this postmodern time period, many contemporary installation artists use sculptural materials and other mixed media to transform the way a particular space is practiced. Objects used in contemporary art have a range from each day of our life or natural materials to new media such as installation, performance, video or sound. Contemporary postmodern practices often face and undermine what is familiar to us in the world of art, which justifies why postmodern art is so diverse and fascinating. In the DANM 2009 MFA Exhibition, the majority of enthusiastic artists tend to create artworks, which reflect significant aspects of our society by using interactive installation and environmental art concept. These two postmodernism art categories are separately explored within the different parts of the art exhibition, allowing viewers to have entire sensory experience. Rather than displaying isolated objects through the interactive installation and environmental art pieces, the artists represent their awareness about politics, society and identity in order have us awakening and changing about the way we view our modern culture.

As an interactive installation artworks often involve viewers performing on the piece responding to the artist’s activity, the viewers become to realize how they see their political and social issues in the modern community. Professor Jennifer Gonzalez, one of the history of art and visual culture associates, defines installation art as a work of art that is usually temporary and that s...

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...perceive their social issues in the current society and change it to make a better way of modern lives. Consequently, as contemporary installation art offers an artistic model for change in our modern community, the viewers should act to change current and future natural, social, and political issues through their actions.

Works Cited

• Kristine Stiles. “Themes in Contemporary Art.” //Eye/Oculus: Performance, Installation

and Video. Gill Perry and Paul Wood. London: Milton Keynes, 2004. 186-187.

• MFA Exhibition 2009/Artist Information: interACTIVATE. Felicia Rice. 2009. Univer-

-sity of California at Santa Cruz. January, 29, 2012 mfaExhibi--tion2009/ArtistInformation>. • Art and Ecology: Perspectives and Issues. Elizabeth Garber. 2006. The Green Museum.

January, 29, 2012 < http://greenmuseum.org/c/aen/Issues/simpson.php>.

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