Personally for me, 'erotic' is something that is more of a psychological state of emotions rather than something physical. Emotions affect our minds in ways that we cannot perceive visually but consciously and unconsciously in our minds. Erotics can have positive and negative effect which is something we would 'feel' more than see. Erotic can provoke many kinds of emotions and these emotions that occur can last in an infinite duration while physical properties are finite. I can't say that erotic is only one thing but many, in many diverse forms of emotions such as desire, guilt, love, pain, something that arouses and stimulates emotions which doesn't have to be sexual related. But erotic has a certain degree of connection between many kinds of emotions, some more than others, the most would be something that is sexually stimulating.
How your projects experiments with/achieves/explores your definition of the erotic as it pertains to architecture?
Eavesdropping and non-venereal voyeurism is hardwired into us. We have an evolved appetite for information about the personal and private lives of others.Humans are not alone in feeling a need to listen to the conversation of others. The desire to eavesdrop, voyeur is stronger ever than before in the digital age. Technology provided us humans with more tools to invade the private lives of others, delibrately and not. For example mobile phone makes us all inadvertent eavesdroppers. We don't necessarily want to be intimate with other people's intimacies but it’s in our nature to do so sometimes unconsciously, through facebook, the desire to eavesdrop has become insatiable. We've become very good at this stuff because the fact is we cannot imagine a world where this sort of behaviour is not possible."
My installation allows the audience to experience the desire to infringe on others privacy and also have theirs privacy invaded too. The audience enters a room full of lamps attached on a wall and placed on the floor to signify CCTVs. The lamps brightness is to show the cameras coverage and also the uncomfortable feeling when looking straight at the light bulb so the people would normally try to avoid, similar where people would avoid CCTVs becuase they feel that they are being watched. The number of the lamps also express the CCTVs watching in the room. All of this is to fabricate a feeling of intimidation and uncomfortablity of the CCTVs where people are being watched by some other unkown observer.
The audience are also provided with a projection of recording of CCTVs on a large wall where they would be able to obersve on some of the areas of the faculty and anticipate what’s happening in each screen. This is to provoke the desire to watch, obersve and gain a comfortable perspective of voyeurism where the audience is able to obersve with ease of whats happening in the CCTV screens without the people being conscious of being watched. To show the maximum experience of voyeurism. They are also unaware of who is watching and as a result the behavior of the people is suppressed
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