TwoWay Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon (1992)

This 1992 video highlights Dan Grahams installation TwoWay Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon originally created as part of the Rooftop Urban Park Project at the Dia Center for the Arts in 1991 The video documents and further explores Grahams investigations of the urban environment from Abbe Laugiers theory of the Rustic Hut to Parisian shopping arcades wintergardens museums Disneyland and corporate office buildings For the Dia Center in New York City Graham developed an environment analogous to a smallscale urban park which integrates aesthetic and utilitarian functions and spatial and visual experiences bringing the landscape into the roof and extending the roof into the landscape Graham writes The pavilion structures are psychologically and socially selfreflective There is a dialectic between the perception of oneself and other bodies perceiving themselves making the spectator conscious of him or herself as a body