DENNIS OPPENHEIM

IDEAS- CONCEPTS TO USE IN FOCUSING UPON ART WORKS FOR THE LOS ANGELES FREEWAY PROJECT

STAGE/FILM SET STRUCTURES

Sculptural constructions that use elements related to the film/ theater context, i.e. false facades with obvious scaffolds and supports. to accomodate equipment, lights, cameras; signs of adjustability (mobile elements) that in these combinations of elements suggest a possible narrative (story), indicating the beginning of an action, or sequence, about to unfold, or happen

HIGHWAY PROJECT- IDEAS

Highway Project is a work which would interface with both the newly designed, filled in area, and the traffic moving under this area. The objective would not be to ignore the considerable audience in their cars, moving along what is often an uninspired journey home, or to work. The urge would be to address both areas of viewers, under and on top with the same work; a work which would perhaps penetrate into or upward into the domain of the other.

This invites ideas incorporating metamorphosis, transitional states: sequencing, indications of forces pushing into or out of, which carry with them, all the associated "content" implied when dealing with activation and the entrance into two separate, distinct locations.

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