Main goal

• Defamiliarize an everyday experience
• Mixing up sight and sound: same motion, different sound; same sound, different object
• Confusing the senses and creating a surreal experience

 

Set-up

[Two tables, representing the rooms, placed in a reflected position.]

 

Study room #1

A table with various materials that create the same sound as items that can be found on a study desk.

Participants can:

• Touch and interact with everything on the table (e.g: dragging, picking up and putting down, pressing, ripping, etc.)

Intended result:

• To confuse the participant with sound; they know it is a study room, but the sight does not match with the look of a desk that they are familiar with
• Through interaction, the objects will create a sound that the participant can link to an object commonly found on a desk

 

Study room #2

A table with the actual objects we find on a study table, each item corresponding with the items from room #1.

Participants can:

• Sit in the chair and observe (e.g: listen to the sounds created from room #1)

Intended result:

• Giving the participant a surreal experience; the hear the sounds, but nothing is physically moving from their point of view
• Feel strange, as though they are having an out of body experience