Design Brief:
Part2: In a group develop an initiation into an installation piece. Consideration of how to feel, act, react, interact with the installation. Consider spatial conditions experienced by the body.
Extract from Design Report:
Initiation, Transition and Identity
The storyline that we directed and filmed followed 5stages:
1. A realisation that due to the initiation changes to personality, role and identity needed to be made. A contemplation of inner emotions in a mostly stationary state.
2. Tentative exploration of current state. Pressing against the fabric to determine what sensations could be felt and where the limits of the ‘skin’ are. With the loss of sight and limited hearing the subject is reliant on trusting her internal instincts.
3. Exploration of emotions through bigger movements. Feeling resistance to change, feelings of frustration.
4. Pushing through the fabric and using the sense of touch. Connecting with the external world and using that information to form a new identity.
5. Acceptance of the changes, acceptance of a new identity and re-assimilation with the world.
Initiations by their nature cause changes in a person’s identity. This can be due to a new role, new knowledge or new experience. In order to assimilate these changes the initiate needs to process the emotional and psychological changes to become comfortable in their ‘new skin’. The process of assimilation may vary in length and intensity. The movie we produced hopes to invoke the feelings of uncertainty, struggle and acceptance with changes in identity.
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