Questioning Installation Ideas

Mary Stewart lists a handful of valuable key questions* to ask when it comes to thinking up an installation art piece.  If I create an installation in the future, I will certainly consider answers to the following:

• What ideas do you most want to express? What emotions do you most want to evoke?
• What is the advantage of a confined space as opposed to an expansive space?
• How much lighting is needed, and what is the most appropriate light source?
• What sounds will you provide? What sounds can be generated by the audience?
• How can you invite viewers into your artwork? What will they discover? What might they know on leaving that they didn't know on entering?
• Will interaction among viewers or between the viewers and the artwork expand meaning or heighten emotion?

*Found on p. 360 of Launching the Imagination