Colour Experiment No. 3 (2009)
Exercises in perception in space and movement using ellipses and circles.
''All the projects revolve around our experience of spaces, collective and individual, and the ways in which our personal engagement changes both spatial dimensions and our understanding of the social spheres in which we take part.'' p1
''Eliasson does not regard space as a naturally occurring substance but as a completely cultural project , which changes as time passes and as it is used in different ways.'' p13
''Another book central to the understanding of Eliasson's working method is Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space (1974). Here, Lefebvre outlines a bold ''unitary theory'' in which he attempts to fuse social, mental, architectural, and historical space. Unlike the current idea of space as an empty vessel to be filled with something, he is interested in how space is produced. A body is not simply in space; it generates space itself. In isolation bodies have neither meaning nor existence. They are reflected in and translated into the changes they create in their milieu, or in their own space. Lefebvre replaces the notion of space as a ''geometric concept'' or ''empty milieu'' with ''substance'', which he admits is simpler to experience than to understand.'' p.15
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