“Transpositions – A Proposition for the 21st century Reading Room”
Fleur Summers
1 Aug → 30 Aug 2014

This project aims to create an interactive and playful space in West Space’s Reading Room, encouraging both individual scholarship and relational activity. By transforming the Reading Room into a creative space incorporating study and discussion cubicles with space to play table tennis, the project aims to increase the productivity and creativity of staff and the general public through play. The project combines the partitioned thinking space of the library carrel and polling booth, combined with the interactivity, brain stimulation and biomechanical movement involved in table tennis.

As freestanding interactive sculptural works, adding mirrors to the system enhances perception and creates expanded fields of vision as well as providing visual feedback. As relational works, they invite the viewer to study, experience and reflect on movement using mirrored partitions while playing table tennis with a partner.

Fleur Summers is a Melbourne-based visual artist working across the disciplines of sculpture, installation, image making and video. Her current interests include looking at the intersection of psychology and neuroscience with the encounter of contemporary sculpture. Despite the seriousness of the topic, many of these works involve playful interaction. Fleur teaches in Sculpture, Sound and Spatial Practice at RMIT University where she is currently undertaking her PhD.