Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon

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Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon (1992)

Directed by Michael H. Shamberg

Documentary · 19m

This 1992 video highlights Dan Graham's installation Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon, originally created as part of the Rooftop Urban Park Project at the Dia Center for the Arts in 1991. The video documents and further explores Graham's investigations of the urban environment, from Abbe Laugier's theory of the Rustic Hut to Parisian shopping arcades, wintergardens, museums, Disneyland and corporate office buildings. For the Dia Center in New York City, Graham developed an environment, analogous to a small-scale urban park, which integrates aesthetic and utilitarian functions, and spatial and visual experiences, bringing the landscape into the roof and extending the roof into the landscape. Graham writes: "The pavilion structures are psychologically and socially self-reflective. There is a dialectic between the perception of oneself and other bodies perceiving themselves, making the spectator conscious of him or herself as a body.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Michael H. Shamberg
Writer
Dan Graham
Director of Photography
Richard Dallet
Editor
Michael H. Shamberg

Details

Release date
1992-01-01
Runtime
19m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Production
Electronic Arts Intermix, Dia Center for the Arts