| Title |
A Study of Place-Forming Public Art |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK.2021.37.5.21 |
| Keywords |
Public Art; Relationship to Site; Place-specific; Place-forming; Categories of Experiencing Place |
| Abstract |
The relationship between a work of public art and place can be understood in various ways, ranging from simply setting a place as a
background to a decisive one in which a work cannot be established without the place. If the context of a place is important to public art,
the distinction between ‘site’ and ‘place’ is meaningful. Place-forming public art attempts to understand a place from simply viewing it as a
physical and external ‘site’ to an existential ‘place.’ Place is formed by projecting subjective experiences into anonymous space and acquiring
meaning based on bodily perception. In the similar way, place-specific public art can be a method of opening the meaning of anonymous
space and delivering it to the body. Public art, which forms place in relation to contexts, can be seen in three categories. First, in the spatial
category public art is perceived from various viewpoints in the relationship with the existing urban fabrics. Place-forming can be discussed
depending on the distance between the work and the body. Secondly, public art undergoes a change in meaning due to changes in the
physical state of the work over time. In addition, the meaning is sometimes newly created as the community related to the work changes. If
the body's participation plays an important role in public art, the meaning of the work changes depending on the body's behavior, and place
has diversity and coincidence. |