Thai's installation development: All in Your Head

After the research on the two artists, Rirkit Tiravanija and El Anatusi, I started my project by the defining the meaning of the word 'erotic' for myself, which are:

Erotic is something born form the sense of intimacy--the feeling of warm, friendliness, and casual--that provoke the interaction--touching and exchanging--of oneself with the surrounding and other people; however, these feeling are still ambiguous; yet, there are still a sense of desire for....

In other word, the project is about the sense of willingness, participations, and interaction between the audiences.

Start off with the brainstorming of some idea of how I would like the people to interact with each other through their own willingness and sense of casualty, by trying to set some boundary or a space with the sense of casualness.

1st Site

Looking at some possible site, which some interesting context. The first one is the Traditional Thai style pavilion, because it promote some simple action, such as take off the shoes, which are casual action and people who follow without doubt.

Proposal 

Therefore, moving on to the activities, by being intemacy and interaction I think of the activity that involve sharing, because by sharing it show how friendliness and warm people are which promote more interaction.

Mean: Through the action of writing on the glass wall, with the act of leaving or exchanging secret message for others people to see....

I decide to choose the mirror due to the fact that it promote more of the interaction between people on different side of the glass, with some sense of secure.

Different method of how to use the glass wall to promote interaction between people.

1. Multiple layer of glass wall to promote more interaction.
2. Concreal some part of the glass wall to promote different level of intimacy and their reaction.
3. Putting a glass wall in between two wall or partition, which might promote the participants to interact with both each other and the site.
4. Creating one-way mirror promte sense of privacy and willing to interact in private activity.

Choosing Site

At this point with the some amount and idea of the proposal it possible to choose the site, which is the 'Exhibition Room' of the First Floor....

Exhibition Room--First Floor, Faculty of Architecture, view from outside of the room

View from inside the room to the outside space

I choose this site not because of the already exsiting glass wall, but also because of the context of the space which have some relationship to my proposal, which is the revealing or the exhibiting of people thought and idea.

Site Orthographic Drawing and Space Analysis

Final Proposal

I decide to combine different method of how to use the glass wall--main mean is the use of one-way mirror to establish some sense of secure and willingness of participation also to give out the sense of ambiguity of the installation. Then allow the paticipant on each site of the glass wall to exhibit their idea on to the wall, then circulate each of them around to see their reaction.

Experiment on Light and Film

Light and Visuality Testing Diagram

Look from the side with higer light source, the result is the sence behide the film become a bit obscure and can't be seen clearly.

Look from the side with lower light source, result in the view behide the film can be see clear; this also show that the letter on the film can be see clearly on the other side without being unclear...