The Ephemerality of the Built Existence - "The Present of the Absent" : Developments

first reaction to toilet elevator installation

Fon's toilet elevator setting

First Raction

Making Foundation

Fe, Documentation and post analysis

" Shine like Diamonds Installation"

 The Attention Seeker  

The installation was an attention seeker which is attract people from far and then lead people to the installation, the light will lead people to the installation. As the visitor get closer, they will able to patterns that generate from the light. The moving patterns captivate people and stay focus to the installation. It also allow you to interact , to touch and play with the installation and so you could control the moving pattern and see how pattern changes and move. The installation is also meant to be the obstruction to the space so the visitor will give it attention

From the observations, The visitors interact to the installation by pull and spin the lights which generate the the moving pattern.   The patterns create a dream-like experiences. Aj.A also commented that ' you could stare at them for hours' which mean the installation does captivate the visitors attention.

PINKY's: Installation drawings

PINKY's: Documentation and post-analysis

Post-Analysis

The installation with different lights.

The installation covered the Hua Med. It does not fully covered the whole object behind. When the wind blew, the installation would move and change place as it revealed different part of Hua Med.

Installation on 10th floor balcony

Reaction of the viewer

On the day of presentation, the color light was broken so I used white spotlight instead. So the installation's effect did not fully perform as I intended for it to be. However, the white spotlight gives a different experience. The light was soften and comfortable to the eyes, making it more pleasant to look up at my installation. At first, I intended to use colored light because when the light's color changes, it will give different sensory.

When the wind blew, the installation move along the wind and it will change from positions to another without touching it.

The viewers have the tendency to look up to the Hua Med. The installation lead the viewers to look on Hua Med which was normally ignored because it was too high to stare at for a period of time. The installation successfully emphasized the object behind it.

PINKY's: Process and development

Process and Development

Eroticism is an emotional impact when the obvious becomes obscure. When something is hidden or forbidden to be seen the more you think and focus on that certain object. The less one sees, the more interesting it gets, the more naughty it is. An example to my statement is an 2 image of a naked female body. One photo showing all body parts, exposing all there is and the other photo a censored parts. A short glimpse at the exposed photo is acceptable but the longer you stare at the expose photo, the lesser attention you pay, you’ve seen it all, no more excitement is left to be reveal. 

Censoring aims to cover up the forbidden part of something. Instead, censoring actually emphasizes the forbidden parts and makes it more appealing, more intriguing.

See, what censor can alter the picture.

Kendo's documentation and post-analysis on "Perception"

Due to the power cut that occurred during the presentation, it affected the visibility of my installation and caused lack of light. Nevertheless, The presentation was still carried on with help from hand held flashlight.

My interpretation of "erotic" is the act of integrating a subject to another in the way that trigger your senses to outshine. The senses in this case consist of touching, seeing, tasting, knowing, hearing and smelling, which our normal daily lives may have us forgetting to notice what senses we have experienced. Therefore the intention of my installation is initially to have people engage in a scenario to become part of the installation, temporarily forgetting their daily lives. Secondly, reducing the ability to do a certain activity with created limitations to certain senses, in this case, seeing, which makes the users even more involved and attentive to their senses. This resembles my interpretation of erotic in integrating a subject to another. Ultimately, this installation is named "perception" as it allows users to perceive the norm differently, as the instructors were unexpectedly made to be in a dating dinner scenario and having them interact with each other as if romantically but in an abnormal way.

The installation is the medium that impacts users directly resembling how the studied term “erotic architecture” impacts their users. 

Jan's documentation and post-analysis on You can, Can you?

FIRST ANALYSIS : OBSERVATION

SURVEY

The survey was created to ask people how they actually feel towards the space and when they accidentally step on the letter. Most of the answer were said that it was okay if we did not tend to step on it.

EXPERIMENTATIONS

Does the place matter?

EXPERIMENT 1

The interviews asking how people  feel and the video recording their reactions towards the obvious Sor Tor - it seems that people tends to walk away according to their thought that it was a piece of art work that belongs to someone. That's why they are walking away as much as possible.

EXPERIMENT 2

The location was changed to in front of elevators to aim the people who come in and out of the elevator. the result was that most people keep avoiding it even they were forced to notice immediately that they are out form the elevators. There are lesser people who step on Sor Tor 

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THE PLACEMENT WAS MATTER

SECOND ANALYSIS : PRODUCTION

DOCUMENTATION : FIRST EXPRESSION

At first, I let people walk from the front gate in order to make it looks more sacred that the statue is looking to us, and let them investigate. Ajarn were the first people who actually step on the installation which made other students followed.

When they first saw the installation on top of the letter 'สธ', the first expression that i saw was just a 'stunning' expressions

DOCUMENTATION : CHANGE OF FEELINGS AND EXPRESSION

Not so long, people began to saw a soccer ball which make they realised that the whole installation is the soccer field. Audience actually knows that it was created for playing not for just looking - they started to play and changed their expressions

DOCUMENTATION : RESULT FROM THE AUDIENCE

Many people said that it was okay for them to step on the Sor Tor indirectly via the installation. A girl also said that it was quiet new to her because she never step on the letter and she never know the feeling when step on it as well. There was also a girl that step on it accidentally, but suddenly she turned and said that she felt guilty for some reason but when she saw that her feet was on the installation, the feeling was kind of relived. 

RESPONSE OF THE INSTALLATION

It was very successful to convey people's feelings and somehow I felt that people's just forgot that where were they right there because they tends to play and expressed their 'joyful' feelings. The audience actually kissing the installation and the installation actually kissing the architecture erotically.

Jan's installation drawing: You can, Can you?

Break the Rule: You can, Can you?

“Life is short, Break the Rules.

Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.

Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably

And never regret ANYTHING

That makes you smile.”

Mark Twain

Why people keep following the rule? What if you try to break it once? This is because we all have our own believes but mostly of them we did not experience by itself but overheard it as a second hand knowledge. 

As the same as the letter 'สธ' (SOR TOR) at the front gate at Faculty of Architecture which Architecture students believed that if we step on it we will not graduate. Does it really true? Have you know a person that step on it and not graduated? I am not disparaging or anything. However, I am telling you that most of us do not experience by ourself but overheard form seniors and its just gone in our head. Moreover, Thai people also believed that we should not step on any letters or words. As if as we know that we should not step on Sor Tor, when we see people step on it. Somehow, it creates a feeling of uncomfortable and unaware. Feeling emotionally towards it showing erotically that how people can be conveyed the feelings and express its emotional. 

AXONOMETRIC VIEW

SET UP

This Axonometric view shows how the field was set in the site. I placed it in front of the statue of Ajarn to create the atmosphere like he is looking to us

Axonometric view of a pattern

Section of installation on site

The pattern of the letters overlapping creates another pattern to the tile which it can be seen as an illusion because the more overlapping the letter, the harder to recognise

INTENDED EFFECT

The diagram shows the possible feelings to the letter. The further, the safer. The nearer, the more concern.

The site itself looks very spiritual and sacred to us, Architecture students. Since there was a believe in which if we step on the letter in front of the statue, we will not be able to graduate. I want to experience on how different people perceive differently and express with different emotional expressions and feelings. I want to investigate the first feeling that they are on what they respected but not a normal feeling that they have before. In other words, I want them to have fun to not graduated.

The site does matter because it was already sacred itself because it was the placement of the statue that we worship. My installation will use the believe to change the emotion to the opposite towards the letters that we tends to believed. Not in a forceful way but make them experience intensionally. Will u dare to do?

MATERIAL EFFECT

One thing to considered is the material used in the installation which is woollen fabric which give audience the texture just like soccer field.

SURVEY

95% choose to experience textured floor

5% choose the normal floor