Skills,Context,Ideas- Proposal for Degreeshow

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Intention
The installation seeks to address issues of identity loss that comes with a body awareness. We lose track of what inspirations come from within because we concentrate too much on the signals and feedback we get from the outside world. We learn how to do things in ways that satisfy other people, confusing their gratification and pleasure for our own happiness. If someone is displeased with our performance we cannot separate and distinguish ourselves from the apparent failure.
The concentration on our physical embodiment and disregard for our self leads to insecurity and dependence on other people’s benevolence towards us.

Requirements
The realisation of my idea demands a space in which I can work on the floor and that is large enough to hold the installation. Two large wooden boards , screwed together into an upside down v-shape, will make the skeleton and central bit of the installation. To large sheets of paper will be stuck to either side of the wooden structure and continue flat on the floor. One of the sides of the structure and the paper attached to it will be the front of the sculpture, which will represent our conscious mind, the other will be the back side of the sculpture and represent our subconscious. The area in which the sculpture is made and subsequently displayed must be large enough to allow the maker (me) and the viewer to walk around it.
The front of the sculpture: Ceramic vessels and abstract sculptures will be placed on top of the part of the paper that lies flat on the floor. They represent all the different situations, people, demands, pressures expectations etc. that affect us in daily life. As a whole the composition of all of the elements depicts our persona, our public personality that we present to the world. With closer inspection and contemplation the viewer will realise that the “persona” is made up of the things that represent different situations, people, demands, pressures expectations etc. What I am aiming to express by this is that the way we present ourselves to the world is shaped by the environment in which we live. We start to identify with the roles we are expected to take.
People perceive us in a certain way. They reflect this image back to us and we then identify with other people’s impression of ourselves.
If that is the case then we are more aware of our physical existence, than of the core of our selves, in which our actual identity and personality rests.
This state of being is called Body awareness, or Ego awareness.
The backside of the sculpture:
The backside of the sculpture represents our subconscious and only one pot will be placed on the paper that is laid out on the floor. That pot symbolises the core of our self.
The inside of the pot will be white, or yellow, a bright colour, that represents the light/energy that gives us the will to live, inspires our creativity and directs our drives. It is the real source of our individuality and personality.
on the outside of the pot will be illustrations of the hectic composition that is the front side of the installation.

What I need to make the installation:
• In order to make the wooden skeleton I will need the help of a TD in the wood workshop.
• I need a projector (it can be a simple overhead projector) in order to project images onto the front and back part of the installation, that will be painted on in slip, glaze and over glaze stains.
I will paint a circle onto the composition on the front of the sculpture. This will empathise that all of the different elements together form our persona.
• I will take a photograph of the composition that makes the front of the sculpture (our conscious) and print it on a sheet of transparent film.
This photograph will be projected onto the surface of the pot that is displayed on the back of the sculpture (in our subconscious) and painted on.
What I need to display the installation:

• A dark space that is walled off
• The installation itself
• Light bulbs that I can program to come on and turn off in a rhythm.

The light bulbs I need for the display of the work will either light up the whole space, showing the form of the whole installation and the individual ceramic pieces. -When the installation is lit up in that way the different situations, people etc. will be highlighted. – Or the light bulbs will be dimmed (possibly I will use black light to illumine the whites!) and shine onto the pots from the side as opposed to from above. In that way the surface of the pots ( and paper) will be highlighted. The painted circle on the surface represents our persona, that is revealed to be an amalgamation of the situations we have to face and the expectations the different people in our surroundings have of us.

The installation will be in a confined space ( a small room ). On the outside of the room, besides the door, will be shelves on which a dinner set is displayed. The installation inside the room is made up of a dinner set of the same kind, reappropriated to a piece of conceptual art.

 

 

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