Editing Installation art (section)

==History==
[[File:La pareja en La Menesunda 1965.jpg|thumb|left|Visitors [[Interactive art|interact]] with a couple in bed, inside one of the many environments of ''[[La Menesunda]]'' (1965), one of the earliest large-scale installations in art history.<ref name="menesundatate">{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/exhibition/marta-minujin-la-menesunda|title=Journey through this maze-like installation and become a part of the art|access-date=March 29, 2020|publisher=[[Tate]]}}</ref><ref name="menesundanewmuseum">{{cite web|url=https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/marta-minujin|title=Marta Minujín: Menesunda Reloaded|date=June 26, 2019|access-date=March 29, 2020|publisher=[[New Museum]]}}</ref>]]
Installation art can be either temporary or permanent. Installation artworks have been constructed in exhibition spaces such as museums and galleries, as well as public and private spaces. The [[genre]] incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, which are often chosen for their "[[:wikt:evocative|evocative]]" qualities, as well as [[new media]] such as [[video]], [[sound]], [[performance]], [[immersive virtual reality]] and the [[internet]]. Many installations are [[Site-Specific Art|site-specific]] in that they are designed to exist only in the space for which they were created, appealing to qualities evident in a [[Three-dimensional space|three-dimensional]] immersive medium. Artistic collectives such as the [[AMNH Exhibitions Lab|Exhibition Lab]] at New York's [[American Museum of Natural History]] created environments to showcase the natural world in as realistic a medium as possible. Likewise, [[Walt Disney Imagineering]] employed a similar philosophy when designing the multiple immersive spaces for [[Disneyland]] in 1955. Since its acceptance as a separate discipline, a number of institutions focusing on Installation art were created. These included the [[Mattress Factory]], Pittsburgh, the Museum of Installation in London, and the [[Fairy Doors of Ann Arbor, MI]], among others.

Installation art came to prominence in the 1970s but its roots can be identified in earlier artists such as [[Marcel Duchamp]] and his use of the [[readymade]] and [[Kurt Schwitters]]' ''Merz'' art objects, rather than more traditional [[craft]] based [[sculpture]]. The "intention" of the artist is paramount in much later installation art whose roots lie in the [[conceptual art]] of the 1960s. This again is a departure from traditional sculpture which places its focus on [[Art#Forms, genres, media, and styles|form]]. Early non-Western installation art includes events staged by the [[Gutai group]] in Japan starting in 1954, which influenced American installation pioneers like [[Allan Kaprow]].
[[Wolf Vostell]] shows his installation ''6 TV Dé-coll/age'' in 1963<ref>[http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/television-decollage/ Wolf Vostell, ''6 TV Dé-coll/age'', 1963]</ref> at the [[Smolin Gallery]] in New York.