Rain Room 2017

Sharjah s rain room marks the middle east premiere and the first permanent installation of this project by random international.

Rain room 2017.

Rain room presents a respite from everyday life and an opportunity for sensory reflection within a responsive relationship. Since we originally discovered and commissioned the first edition of random international s rain room in 2012 we. The room offers some great photo opportunities. As you walk around the room the rain surrounds you and should not fall on you although it does a bit.

The exhibition entitled rain room was created by hannes koch florian ortkrass and stuart wood three contemporary artists and graduates from the royal college of art in london who went on to found their own art studio random international. The installation offers visitors an opportunity to experience what is seemingly impossible. The ability to control rain. Send text message print robyn beck afp getty images.

Random international s rain room 2012 is an immersive environment of perpetually falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected. Speculative societies thursday 25th may 2017 7 9 30pm at the trampery. A field of falling water that pauses wherever a human body is detected rain room offers visitors the experience of controlling the rain. February 01 2017 advertisement.

There is also a nice cafe in the venue. May 12 jul 28 2013. Yuz museum shanghai 2015 and lacma los angeles 2015 2017. New york is presented in the lot directly adjacent to the museum of modern art.

The extension reframes the rear of the building by amplifying the characteristics found within its fabric. The work has previously been on view at the barbican london 2012. The follow up to rain room is brilliant and unsettling 8 08 2017 the atlantic in human just us and our orblike shadows 14 08 2017 new york times silky moves and sentient spheres 14 08 2017 financial times. Riba london award 2017 aj retrofit award 2017.

By michael juliano posted. The sun rain room is a two storey extension and restoration of a grade ii listed georgian townhouse. The piece had previously shown in a number of international art venues including new york s museum of modern art and london s barbican. Rain room is a 2012 experiential artwork by hannes koch and florian ortkrass of random international which found its first permanent installation in sharjah united arab emirates in 2018.

At aed 25 dirhams per person the admission price is very reasonable that gives you 15 minutes in the room. Random international s immersive environment rain room 2012 a major component of the moma ps1 exhibition expo 1. To us rain room is a reflection of creative courage.