[PDP] FYP Proposal – Ideation 2

Mirroring Society

Much of what enters our consciousness, of course, comes from the culture around us. And like the culture, it seems that our minds are split on the subjects of race, gender, class, sexual orientation. We not only mirror the ambivalence we see in society, but also mirror it in precisely the same way.

People shaped their self-concepts based on their understanding of how others perceive them. They also form their self-image as the reflections of the response and evaluations of others in the environment.

Goal :
Create a visual impact on the response society made to a stereotyped person.

Metaphor :
A mirror.

Brief Idea :
An interactive installation.

There will be screens with borders around them to resemble the ‘mirrors’. Each person in the mirror will depict motions of himself being comfortable with what he wants to dress like (e.g. body full of piercings and tattoos). However, when an audience approaches the mirror, the sensor will pick up that presence and trigger the person in the mirror to feel uneasy.

He will walk out of frame and return wearing something that the society approves (e.g. a button-down shirt which covers his tattoos).

Questions to self :
– What kind of stereotyping categories to emphasize on? Culture? Appearance? Community?
– Clothes – what should you display?
– Actors – what actions should they do?
– Any call-to-action?

– Think of the whole flow to the experience
– What questions do you want the audience to think about?

 

Inspired Works

< Context >
“Stereotypical Cultures (2011)” by Mona Faisal Al Gurg and Wendy W Fok

About the Work
Utilizing visual-stills and aural-recordings, the installation will exhibit a pool of carefully sampled female individuals from both (Middle-Eastern and Chinese) societies of who volunteers their photographs and experiences to be recorded as part of this exhibition.

The design proposal is to provide the visitor to the installation the sole opportunity to view a still-image which portrays one of many interviewed female ‘stereotypes’, while along the side of the photograph, be able to individually listen to their views of themselves, their experiences, their backgrounds, and their perspectives of their world around them.

Thoughts
The installation managed to explore a combination of photography and audio Installation Art, and past the generic stereotype that diminishes the value of human understanding, and to broaden a mutual cultural tolerance into the international and globalised world.

< Space >
One-way colour tunnel (2007) by Olafur Eliasson

“Venetian Mirror” by Sam Baron

About the Work
Venetian Mirror is a large scale interactive installation blending contemporary digital technology with traditional Venetian glass. When the visitor walks up to the installation, their image doesn’t immediately appear in the mirror. Only if they keep very still, will the reflection slowly appear, like a photograph being developed.

< Style/Mood >
“The Mirror of Our Nature” Installation at the 70th Cannes Film Festival

About the Work
‘Lo Specchio della Nostra Natura’ or ‘The Mirror of Our Nature’ is an immersive multimedia experience that highlights the wonders and delights of Italian cinema. Showing at the Cannes film festival, curating a series of cinematic snap shots, NONE – an artistic collective from Rome produced this brilliant and immersive experience.

Shown from inside the centre of a crystalline structure, a level of dream like hypnotism is experienced. It is a landscape from which to view the cinematic vignettes that has a fairy like quality. It feels like another world, another dimension. It is almost akin to witnessing magic, the reorganisation of our logical world superimposed with the magic that cinema is capable of creating.

“Mirror Mirror” by Jason Bruges

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