Jeongmoon Choi creates spectacular UV light and thread installations that play with perspective.

About the work:

Jeongmoon Choi works with thread and traces this three-dimensional line directly into volume to create illusions of perspective. The thread is coloured and used to outline or redefine the architecture of the spaces the artist invests. Drawing directly into space with her hand, the artist addresses questions about our environment, as well as about aspects of lodging and the role of nature in our urban spaces.

Points of Contention by Jonathan Latiano

About the project:

Driven by the exploration of time, motion and the physics of the natural world, Jonathan Latiano presents Points of Contention, a site-specific installation sculpture that investigates the increasingly blurred line between the organic and inorganic as well as the spatial boundaries of where the spectacle begins and ends. Convergent forms of crystalline growth and explosive impact reinforce the hundreds of shards of custom cut and painted elements used to create the centerpiece of the exhibition. Through the use of reclaimed and altered wood, plastic, Styrofoam and site-grown salt crystals Latiano explores the question: At what point do the controversies of the present become the “new norms” of the future?

Starfish installation by Maria Fernanda Cardoso

Humus by Giuseppe Licari is an installation named after the noticeably-absent soil layer that is essential for the growth of trees and plants. 

Roca Starts Beating by Saeta Estudi

Watch the fascinating “making of” video:

Roca Starts Beating (English) from CuldeSac™ on Vimeo.

The Starlight Project was an installation created for the 2012 Burning Man by Erich Remash, Jeremy Berglund, Don Peterson and Chad Ingle. It consists of seven stars positioned in the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to represent the constellation of Orion. 

Shinji Ohmaki’s evolving room installation Moment & Eternity is a tribute to time.

About the project:

Moment and Eternity overturns established codes, eschewing the gallery wall in favour of the floor, and establishing a new form of contact with the viewing public. Japanese artist Shinji Ohmaki invites us to interact with and contemplate an evolving, eminently poetic installation.

Moment and Eternity is a kaleidoscope of floral motifs developed at floor level. The dense composition consists of brilliant, coloured pigments applied directly to white felt, using a stencil technique. Visitors are invited to wander across the work: their passage is an integral element in the piece, which evolves as their steps generate new forms. Subject to chance, the ever-changing work evokes the footprint as a testament to the passage of time.

Sound Architecture IV by Ronald van der Meijs is a different sort of “carol of the bells”. It’s made up of 5,000 bicycle bells installed to sway and interact like reeds. When the wind blows they brush together and make chiming sounds.

Una Lumino by Choe U-Ram is a kinetic sculpture with mechanical flowers that light up and bloom in mesmerizing patterns. You can see it in motion in this video: 

Organic sculptures by Jaehyo Lee

Lee on his work:

I draw a picture on wood using nails…It may be a rusty bent nail. If you take a close look at it, however, you’ll find how beautiful it is.

Manuel A. Báez is an “artist, architect and researcher inspired by generative potential of the forms, structures and integrative systems that occur in the natural environment”. This work is from his Phenomenological Garden Installation.

The Symphony in D Minor is a joint project by Patrick Gallagher and Chris Klapper.

About the project:

Symphony in D Minor is an interactive sound and video installation on an epic scale.  A thunderstorm contained within a series of large hand cast resin sculptures, each individual form is a unique instrument hanging 40 feet from the ceiling.

Suspended just within reach and activated by touch, the viewer sets the symphony in motion by pushing the forms through the air to trigger the various sound elements of the storm.

Like giant illuminated pendulums each sculpture radiates video projections that in their dormant state display abstractions of water droplets and slow moving clouds.  As the sensors detect movement different ranges initiate more visual elements of the storm.   Once activated, the form then shifts to a swirling torrent of clouds.

You can see and hear it in this video:

The Hear Heres by Studio Weave

Studio Weave on their project:

Set within the stunning parkland surrounding the Grade I Listed Kedleston Hall, the Hear Heres offer visitors an immersive and interactive experience that invites curiosity. In response to the competition brief, which called for new perspectives of the National Trust property, we have designed a series of four structures that play with sound and open up auditory vistas in the landscape. The Hear Heres encourage people to explore the landscape and expend energy, but at the same time offer spaces for moments of quiet reflection and soaking up the sounds and sights of this extraordinary setting.

Ai Weiwei made this snake memorial dedicated to the young victims of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake out of backpacks because of the large number of them he saw at schools when he visited the disaster site. Each backpack represents a child who left theirs behind.

The Cracking Art Group is an artist collective that aims to draw attention to serious causes with whimsical installations. Their recent installation at Milan’s Duomo was created to raise awareness and money for this historic landmark, which is in dire need of upkeep and repairs.