The Living Room - Ottawa, Ontario
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This public art display, created by Urban Keios in 1995, is located outside of the Ottawa City Hall, in the west courtyard.
Waymark Code: WMX2B0
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 11/16/2017
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Originally planned as a theatrical stage set with props, this invented room provides a place for personal thinking and public observation. As visitors walk around and through The Living Room, a relationship between the participant's body and each object at the site begins. A doorway, some chairs, a window and a television have been positioned close together to replicate the intimacy of an interior space and to acknowledge the spatial limits of an urban environment. Visitors are encouraged to enter the scene and consider how ideas are formed by the events taking place in the outside world.
In 1991, Nickolas D. Semanyk and Jason Grant-Henley, both of whom studied architecture at Carleton University, formed a partnership and named it URBAN KEIOS.
Title: The Living Room
Artist: Urban Keios
Placement Date: 1995
Website: [Web Link]
Type of Object: Chair, door, window, television
Location: In the west courtyard of the Ottawa City Hall
Material: Aluminium
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