#bodyspacemotionthings

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Robert Morris: Bodyspacemotionthings at Tate Gallery, 1971 ...

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“Bodyspacemotionthings” at the Tate Gallery in 1971 by Robert Morris. 

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Interactive art was a new concept when the exhibition Bodyspacemotionthings first went on show at the Tate in 1971. Created by the American artist Robert Morris, it consists of a series of beams, weights, platforms, rollers, tunnels and ramps that people can clamber all over. It closed just four days after opening, due to safety concerns over the wildly enthusiastic reaction of the audience. For The Long Weekend 2009 the exhibition was recreated at Tate Modern using stronger, modern materials. In this film we watch the reaction of todays visitors, and speak to curators Catherine Wood and Kathy Noble about Morriss vision and influence.

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Bodyspacemotionthings, Robert Morris (1971)

“The work was originally shown in the Duveen Galleries of what is now Tate Britain. It was abruptly closed, because Tate staff 'were not able to cope with the frantic means of emotional release that the exhibition became. An orderly pandemonium was expected, but pandemonium broke out’, reported the Times in 1971.“

“The Guardian’s reporter in 1971 noted: 'Some of the 1,500 visitors became so intoxicated by [the] opportunities that they went around "jumping and screaming" to quote the exhibitions keeper, Mr Michael Compton. They went berserk on the giant see-saws, and they loosened the boards on other exhibits by trampling on them ... "It was just a case of exceptionally exuberant or energetic participation," Mr Compton said tolerantly.” 

“As parts of the work were wooden, first-aid staff had to pick splinters out of people's backsides.”

“Tate curator Kathy Noble says Morris was 'exploring ideas of spacial awareness, of becoming aware of yourself, your own body, as a physical object in space'”

photography - archives, description - Guardian

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Thought this artist was pretty neat and extremely relevant to reshaping spaces and interaction.  I would love to go do this.

Taken from khanacademy.

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