P 1 BODY TO SPACE / September 8th - October 15th / 5 wks.
Instructor: Jae-sung Chon
INQUIRY:
How much do we know about our body, its dimensions, and potential? When do we sense the presence of our body? Is the body space, a surface, or a form? What are the spatial and formal qualities of our body? Can we reveal and/or augment its spatial reality? How much of our sense of space is affected by the body’s ‘mode’ of existence/presence? How do our body attributes (weight, smell, texture, movement/speed, heat, and so on) register/reveal in the space? How does such registration affect or construct spatiality? How can/does the material and or environmental mediation (furniture, clothing, gadgets, utensils, lights, colour, air/wind, temperature, and so on) of a body affect the spatial condition? Can we question (change) the space by questioning (changing) the body? Can we invent new spatiality by augmenting or trans/dis-positioning the body-space relationship?
INTENT:
Can we create a language that communicates space-body relationships using the shadow of past experience? Through the process of investigating the body and space relationship, I have explored different ways of augmenting the space with the body as an active tool. I took a few steps back for the final prototype to examine the mapping created by multiple overlay photos of past actions. The language created through various movements while navigating the space is a shadow of body spatial experience and a mapping mechanism of the space body relationship. Further exploration such as elongating the sticks or creating a weightless self-caring mechanism where the fabric is no longer suspended could be interesting.
THE APPARATUS
PROCESS
Above: Overlay of 400 photographs taken during the repeated process of hanging laundry on a line. This overlay inspired the final apparatus.
ITERATIONS
Photographs below: Research and ideas of various ways of incorporating fabric into the space-body relationship and augmenting that space.
