An office, a house, a community, or a country. These are containers or spaces provided to individuals to live, to work, or just to be. Does anybody shape these spaces for others? How one can design a community space?
The proposed project is an interactive and site-specific installation.
This temporary structure/space (The Room) offers a conversation about social, physical, and political structures that shape our behaviours and lives as individuals and as a community. On the example of this space the project raises question about a possible power, which determines our behaviours within other spaces. I talk about the adaptation of an individual to situations and spaces, even where power and physical, mental and metaphorical scaffolds are a norm.
This installation consists two parts: video on the monitor played in a loop and an interactive space this video will be played in; the Beige Room.
The video encourages to explore the question of power and its’ impact on groups of people, structuring their spaces and their route into the Freedom.
The Beige Room project is a multilayered and interactive installation, which creates mutual experience for the audience. To their attention will stand impersonal beige room filled with beige furniture/objects. The Room will offer graphite pencils and erasers to draw, write and erase on the walls and pieces of furniture, while the room becomes an object by itself. At the entrance to the space there will be an instruction, a sign how to behave in the space, which ironically will make a connection to endless signs on Halifax streets between scaffolds and will comment on an idea of dictation and shaping individuals behaviours.
The video that will be played in a loop Chapter 2 represents my perspective of looking into the fragile and shifting route for Freedom between metaphorical scaffolds in different cultures. One hears different languages in the video-a specific kind of language that my family uses that mixes English, Hebrew, and Russian. I use English text as a tool and entry point for the viewer; however the English is not a translation, instead it provides another layer of meaning. The text lines gradually layer one on top of another, forming a massive body of letters and words, which are mentioned in the video, but become more visual than informational.
Beige room is a space, a neutral hypothetical safe space, where audience will be able to adjust and shape the room they are entering. This way, the space is not “offered” to the visitors, while they design it themselves. The final installation becomes collage by itself, consisting a video and a response of the audience, layered one on top of another, forming one time experience, which will never be the same.
The installation is a site-specific unpredicted experience, where the room/space, video work and the audience become one cohesive organism. The project literally explores changing and shifting grounds of a temporary space, offering the experience of transition while creating a new version of The Room / the space.
The Space
The People
The Scaffold feeling
How bad it could go?
