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Symbolic Public Form & the Library Art Gallery of Ontario
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FACTITIOUS BY NATURE The proposed Nam June Paik Museum intends to harness the qualities of the artist’s work by employing the interpreted devices used in his pieces. Suggestive contrasts, irony, and the filtering of meaning become useful tools in this regard. The result is a building of juxtaposition. Space and form have been manipulated to contort the natural and built environment evoking unique and novel perspectives. The building compliments Paik’s work by encouraging reevaluation by the act of distortion. Paik’s work tends to the alteration of media and the design distorts its landscape with a similar spirit. Boundaries blur and harden to mold a fluid container that reflects the movement and progression of Paik’s older and current works. Building ‘anchors’ have been created to ground dynamic spaces; as points of departure, while other areas are set in motion, providing a poetic context to encircle the pieces. Dynamic spaces speak of the pace of evolution with which Paik’s work concerns itself. Shifting alongside the ethical and societal stability of Paik’s commentary and subject matter, the building intends to reflect this flux. The technology and media, which remains Paik’s topic of choice, are conceived with invisible layers of meaning and consequence. In many ways, the design finds itself riddled with multiple meanings. The interior and exterior spaces cross-pollinate and juggle the program, circulation mutates into gallery space and vice versa, the natural becomes unnatural,landscape becomes built form, walls become roofs and then floor, and spaces are offset tectonically to offer new relationships and definitions. As Paik’s work continues to bring the media’s role in society to question and examination, the building interrogates its own purpose as utility and built form. |
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