Field Group- Final Presentation
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Field Group- Final PresentationIntroducing:
Jesse Case- MakerChris Bish- Graphic CommunicationSarah Thomas- Fine ArtNathan Mullis- Fine Art
Key Ideas and concepts: Hidden StoriesThe individualHidden Fears and AnxietiesScandals, secrets, liesSociology and psychology theoriesVulnerability
Final Aim:To make people reconsider how they see themselves and others in the City and to have a shared sympathy for each others fears and vulnerabilities.
Looking at Humanistic Psychology
“Although, I am very well aware of the incredible amount of destructive, cruel, malevolent behaviour in today’s world, I do not find this evil is inherent in human nature” -Carl Rogers: Journal of humanistic psychology Summer 1982
Putting our Ideas into Context.City living affects your
brain, researchers findThe part of the brain that
senses danger becomes overactive in city-dwellers when they are under stress
- Articles from the Guardian
Cardiff Prison: The poignancy
KW Gallery- One on One Berlin 2012
Installation influential experience: Personal one on one interaction
Key Artist Influence:Bruce Nauman-Room with my Soul left out, The room that does not care
Considering how to use Space:
Jewish Museum -Berlin
Questionnaire Results:1.What makes you feel uncomfortable within a city environment?2.Why?3.What sounds make you feel uncomfortable?4.How do you feel living in the City?
Cardiff City Centre and Cardiff Bay
Howard Gardens Studio Space and Gallery
Llandaff’s New Campus for Art and Design.Fine Art Studio’s.
Finalized Details:Minimize lightingOne viewer in at a timeTo leave the viewer
standingOpen empty spaceLoud surround soundTo have the sound on loopRecord reaction after the
experienceTo ask three key questions
Preparing Installation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCSwKqczruM
Installation video and experience feedback.
Conclusion and Summary of the experienceThe reactions where a success:
sense of heightened insecurity, uncomfort, disorientation.
Received positive feedback Learnt new technical skillsLearnt how to compromise ideas
within a groupLearnt how other people work
from other disciplines, and how they have contributed to the group
Time management and organisation
- Time limitations affecting the location
- Time limitations on the Sound
- Equipment availability- Staff availability and
response- Meeting together as a group