Immaterial Labour {skateboard/prounroom)

Ipswich Regional Gallery, 2014

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In 1923 El Lissitzky designed what he called a ‘proun room’ – a meeting place of art and architecture. He wrote:"The space must be a kind of showcase, a stage, on which the pictures make their appearance as actors in a drama (or comedy). This installation continues El Lissitzky’s dream to connect art with life (and humour), and brings together recreation, sport, theatre, work and art in a way that transforms the gallery and that depends on audience involvement for its success as a work of art. In so doing it raises questions about what makes a work of art ‘work’? When does art cross boundaries into play and thinking and life and how important is the history of art to how we (can) see things today?

 

More info at: https://ipswichartgallery.qld.gov.au/exhibitions/immaterial-labour-skatebowl-prounroom