Team: Lee Qiu Wen, Goh Sze Kei
Development Sketches:
- How does your audience experience your project?
Let’s take the audience as the person who has been abandoned. With every tissue that the audience pulls out from the tissue box (our object), a different sound recording plays. The sound recordings are not words of loath or despise but of comfort instead.
- Is it for a single person to engage with your project or for multiple participants concurrently?
It is for a single person to engage with at a time.
- What is the interaction or situation you are creating for your audience?
Our audience has just been abandoned by a loved one and requires/desires comfort to ease their sadness. Our object does so but in a mechanical voice reminding them of the loved one’s absence instead, hence facilitating feelings of emptiness and loneliness.
- What is the intention of this interaction?
After being abandoned, one may possibly shut oneself out and the words of comfort from friends and family may fall on deaf ears. A tissue box represents the audience’s desire for comfort/need to be comforted as crying is a sign of struggle and crying aloud can be taken as a call for help. The mechanical voice—meant to substitute that of the loved one—and the recordings remind the audience that the comfort they desire from the loved cannot be attained for he/her has left. The lack of tone and human presence in the voice emphasises this, hence forcing them to face harsh reality of the loved one’s absence. We hope this also encourages/reminds them to seek/accept comfort from the friends and family around them instead and to cherish the presence of present companions instead of lingering over a lost love.