The field, exercise to be an optimist

site-specific installation

July-September 2012

a group exhibition

'PRESENT FOREVER-55 contemporary Dutch artists'

at Fatform, KLIEVERINK-parking garage

Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Find a familial measurement in inhuman scale The first of all, this project was began with a given question how to turn a space of the building ‘KLIEVERINK – Parkeergarage’ - four floor dirty and dark parking garage into a possible art field to expose a creative mind and a new perspective of life in contemporary world. I proposed to make a site-specific installation, a golf field, with an aim to offer viewers to enjoy a possible excitement by a use of elements of the golf sport in a simple repetition of hitting balls and getting galls with its spirit of accomplishment. There were heavy concrete low ceiling and metal frames instead of the blue sky and open air green field, but I wanted to extract playfulness, happiness and imagination from viewers mind through a whole process of seeing, being and playing in the golf field. As a backstage, I took some effort to investigate the area ‘Bijlmermeer’, everyday life, complex series of urban syndromes, architectures and historical elements of the period of 70’s and 80’s urban developments pursued only functionality for mass population. The experience of this called for a diligent sensitivity of approach to create all detailed elements with full-hand-made appearance and a familial measurement - mixed scale between human and mini scale in order to create the space between physical reality and imagination. I wanted to install many possible branches of hidden stories. I didn’t aspire at making a total harmony, but prefer a disharmony of layers to offer viewers to enjoy their own view of possible golf fields. Hit a ball beyond the horizon, we will find a new land I built the golf field in the parking garage, and let visitors play. All activity must be well protected by a fence and helmets for players in order to avoid chances to injure anybody by our exercise. Formation elements The golf course (Size: 4m width, 12m depth, height is 220 - 280cm limited by the ceiling of the space) -Approximately 17 degree slopping floor -Lose one's sense of balance -30 cm grid structure covered with double layered metal mesh. -Instability of one’s body to be seen as a half floating -Miniature scale of fences and flags for non stepping area -Neutrality & Flatness & Emptiness -Projecting an image of what kind of body will be in. -Silence with noise of hazard, Silence with noise of emptiness -Transparency with invisible protections -Contradiction minimum manipulates one's activity and 'Less is more' (ex. Farnsworth House designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe) Wall – the installation covered with half-transparent white net -Grids & Cage Chicken net -Protection & Separation & Segregation -Shape the space Entrance -A small door (a door = 2D passage between reality and realistic fantasy) -Make one's body bend in order to define the moving one's body into the different space Teeing ground -The first position to hit a ball -Two pieces of artificial green ‘lands’ for right-hand users and left-hand users -Tees Dressing place -A place to get a helmet = a protection for player Golf -Typical sport or game which has certain goal -Goals at same time are holes = voids -Artificial nature -Richness -Status 23 Golf clubs 40 Golf balls A Flag -25x 35cm -Made out of a cutting board Two halls -one hall is big 30 cm circle on the golf field -the second hall is on the actual floor of the parking garage 3 concrete beams –a part of the actual building of the parking garage -Something poking Trophy -Title: ‘The traditionalized globalization’

photographed by Ayako Nishibori