The
first effect I intended to get from participants who get into my installation
is “Shocked” by amount of paper cups hanging/floating block the passage way,
they may initially worry “oh my, should pass through this?” then as soon as
they realize these paper cups work like tin can phone, the feeling of “excited”
and “joy” or even “attract” them (participants) to touch and try to play them.
Like
giving a toy to kid, paper cups phone reminds us a childhood fun, and for this
installation, it acts as a tool to allure participants to listen to any sound
inside the cups.
The
step next is sound, before that let me introduce 2 types of paper cup phones,
there are white string ones and red string ones. Each type has different functions,
give different experiences, but I will not tell the participants about this
fact, they will have to figure out themselves by experimenting. This is also an
another trick to let participants listen to the sound of the building; sounds
that building makes, sounds that building usually hears, etc.
Then
move to the last part, as I derived inspiration from paper cups phone, the
logic of this simple toy is to have a receiver and a message sender in clearly
separated phase. In other word, we cannot listen and talk at the same time,
this led to the last part—to send your messages to the faculty.
Unlike
receiving, sending is more likely that the messages may leak out or overheard
by somebody. I chose the dead-ended corner and almost completely dark, moreover
building a partition from paper cups and strings to give a feeling of “more
privacy”
Construction
To
make it easy to install and remove, all the paper cups phones are attached to
the paper clips and hooks them to nets which are hung with strings to the pipes
attached to the ceiling, no use of glue or sticky tape at all.
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