Kinetic Drawing Sculpture - Karina Smigla-Bobinski

A sculpture, a body made of stone standing tall inside a gallery or with in a city on the side of a fountain. Isn't that what we all think of when we hear the word 'Sculpture'?
Karina Smigla-Bobinki is a German artists that works with in the ideas of sculpture, photography, video instillations and most importantly interactive instillation. 

The work in this post is her helium filled sphere with charcoal spikes. On entering the gallery space the audience is faces with a large floating sphere, that in some ways looks ominous, and much like a sea mine. However what makes this work unique is that for it to work as an exhibition piece it requires the audiences reaction to the work. It really looks at the way that people interact with their surroundings, when faced with an instillation such as this it is up to the audience to make the art work, work by pushing, pulling, turning, spinning and dragging the sphere. The result of the audeinces interaction is shown in the images above. The walls have become darken with the scribbles of charcoal, while the ball its self has become covered with the finger prints of all those who interacted with the sphere. In some was it is filled with memory of the people that worked with the sphere. 
What makes this even more interesting is that no two people with make the same markings and no two exhibition spaces will look the same after the show, each time this is shown with in a gallery it is different to the last.