In this project I am thinking about connection and tension. I aim to
make the participants a little uneasy, but also have a dialog that they
might not have in any other circumstances. The strings are not meant to
be binding but rather connecting. They hold you in the moment and
prevent distractions. The conversations are strangely intimate because
what is more intimate than your subconscious? People withdraw or
holdback information about themselves everyday because of what other
people might think about them. On the other hand, sharing subconscious
thoughts people don’t even know what to hold back, let alone what these
imaginings even mean. So it makes the individual contemplate exactly how
much they trust the other person and think of what would be appropriate
to share.
In making this project i was pleasantly surprised by what
the visual outcome. I thought it was great that when viewing the project
from a distance that one could not see the string (or the connection).
It looked like everyone was standing the exact distance away from their
partner then everyone else.
I did have a little trouble ending the
project, because i forgot to say in the beginning instruction what to do
when the percipient is finished. So the ending point could have been a
little awkward.
In this project I am thinking about connection and tension. I aim to make the participants a little uneasy, but also have a dialog that they might not have in any other circumstances. The strings are not meant to be binding but rather connecting. They hold you in the moment and prevent distractions. The conversations are strangely intimate because what is more intimate than your subconscious? People withdraw or holdback information about themselves everyday because of what other people might think about them. On the other hand, sharing subconscious thoughts people don’t even know what to hold back, let alone what these imaginings even mean. So it makes the individual contemplate exactly how much they trust the other person and think of what would be appropriate to share.
ReplyDeleteIn making this project i was pleasantly surprised by what the visual outcome. I thought it was great that when viewing the project from a distance that one could not see the string (or the connection). It looked like everyone was standing the exact distance away from their partner then everyone else.
I did have a little trouble ending the project, because i forgot to say in the beginning instruction what to do when the percipient is finished. So the ending point could have been a little awkward.