New video: Keynote lecture by Olafur Eliasson

Video: Olafur Eliasson: ‘Emotional Synchronicity: How Art Moves the World’

 Keynote Lecture at Atmospheres, Architecture, and Urban Space: New Conceptions of Management and the Social - Conference at Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, 17 May 2011 - organized by associate professor Christian Borch.The atmospheric dimension is central to the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. Eliasson has earned his reputation as one of the world’s leading contemporary artists not least because of his atmospheric installations and interventions. This applies, for example, to his renowned Weather Project at Tate Modern in London (2003–2004) and more recently to his much celebrated New York City Waterfalls (2008). In both cases Eliasson’s work has not merely addressed our reliance upon atmospheres; it has also demonstrated how our conceptions and perceptions of particularly urban spaces are open for manipulation, whether for the good or the bad.

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Emotional Synchronicity - How Art Moves the World by Olafur Eliasson