Environments

An alternative term for installation art; environments are mixed-media constructions or assemblages usually designed for a specific place and for a temporary period of time

Darkened gallery installation: five large glowing projections of mottled, bubbling colour in oranges, yellows, blues and greens, like magnified liquid crystals, span two walls above a scatter of grey floor cushions.

Gustav Metzger
Liquid Crystal Environment (1965, remade 2005)
Tate

The term environments was first used by artist Allan Kaprow in 1958 to describe his own large-scale artworks which transformed interior spaces.

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