WHAT IS OUR 1st PRESENTATION GOING TO BE ABOUT?

Installation Breakdown– stages

The configuration in space and the material outcome will depend mostly on the space we have at our disposition and the budget. We know for sure there will be 1 mixed media installation, a sound installation, 2 video installations and a scrap book.

1. Enter the realm of identity – your identity, other people’s identities.  In order for your immersion to be more successful, we have to shake your ground somehow, to make you lose all certainty. The discomforting path of self-consciousness. It is never easy to be yourself.

Physical space: There s a corridor, an entrance, some kind of floor – it seems normal but once you start walking on it, something irregular happens, which not only makes you feel you might fall, but also makes you dance. Shaky ground.

2. Identity Manifesto – Performing the unconscious. How is identity formed? What do great theorists think about that? What is this great social construction? Is it personal etc. Identity, a constant unconscious quest for belonging – it’s results performed in everyday life. It gives an idea on our overall vision of identity – two sides of the story:some of the factors forming it and the outcome that cannot be expressed through words. The visitor is facing a mirror of identities, and is also faced with a decision, of changing that vision. A moment of those that define our vision for the world is taking place just I front of our eyes.

Physical space: A frame on the wall, or suspended from the ceiling. A white sheet of paper or a mirror – no matter what it is, it is reflecting unconscious movements and para-lingual signs. You may find your self inthere or not. Somewhere close to the frame there is a big red button. A choice has to be made. Will you press the button?

3. A booklet- the story of red buttons. What is a red button?

4. Sound box – brainwashing / vibrate through / the sensuous way.
Lose yourself to music – to other people’s music

5. Documentation– research paraphernalia – building our own worlds/ identities in process. Different visions, different people, different media. A book

6. Identities Mix – a filter to reality. Origins, faces e.t.c.

7. Interpretations – Delegated worlds. The identity each on of us has works as a filter for the way we perceive an create our own reality.

Thoughts on the outcome

Without being or wanting to be very specific right now about what exactly will be presented in Prague next March, we are almost certain that we do not want to present a performance, but an installation.
From what we have discussed so far, there will be a main installation that will function as a projection screen, and it will be completed by a compilation of all the documents and details we will gather through our residency in Poznan.
We would like the video-projection to include parts of our physical trials and the interviews, but in an abstract and integrated form. What would be ideal for us is that the visitors could somehow be part of the projection as they walk in the room, probably by making the walk behind a semi-transparent screen.
The other part of the installation would have digital and analogue elements of our research, a kind of an open archive that the visitors would be able to flicker through. That way, they would identify themselves with the process, and get closer to the artists as their (our) trials and errors would be open to the public.
All of that is open to discussion, and we believe that we will have a more concrete idea on what will happen in Prague by the end of next week, after going through the interviews.