[Project Proposal]
Description-In this experiment, a participant's willingness to pay attention to his/her own life style let a participant to open up his/her story of life. After the participant explores his/her individualized life story, this experiment invites a participant to the ways and histories of life that are different from the participant's own. The experiment gradually leads participant to the global panorama of humanity that connects every human being.
A participant walks into the room and answers the questions concerning his/her lifestyle. A participant is also to put his/her hand on the special plate that detects the heat that comes off from the hand. A camera is installed on top of the plate and the video recording of participant's hand, video clips of cell division, and the heat distribution of his/her hand are projected on the wall to give participant the sense of physical reality, mysterious panorama that is happening at that moment. While participant kept his/her hand on the plate, willing to explore more, the video clips are being played that paint a participant's lifestyle. As the time precedes these clips depict the lifestyles that are far from participant's own and s/he experiences the various cultural, religious, ethnical, and situational human activities that can be happening right at the moment of the experiment.
This experiment carries the questions on humanity and what is meant to be "living" our lives. How people have different lifestyles and customs that are differentiated by various ethnicity, environment, situation, and history; but at the same time mechanism of the physical, emotional, and mental states are the same for every human—such as our desire to be happy and loved and our struggles to survive life.
There is the source, the "core" that connects us as human. There are different stories of life that are as real as any individual story whether each of us realizes them or not—there is natural panorama that's happening at every moment.
No matter what one's background is, what period of time in history one is in, and what choice one makes, one is going through the same thing as everybody else on this globe, which represented by cell divisions and heat distribution of the body in this experiment.
There are basics that human needs, desires, and experiences.
While the participants experience so many different lives and stories, they can question the human lives; have their own opinion, exploration, thoughts, and feelings.
This project is to experience the portrait of humanity—to experience the beauty of variation of human lives and the core that all the human beings share in the name of life.
Timeline –
Phase one_
Overall planning
Collects video clips
Make questions
Work on programming
Phase two_
Work on programming
Put together the video clips (working on the phase and orders of display of clips)
Work on the plate (how it really happen)
Phase three_
Work on the plate
Final putting together
Budget- (approximation)
6 projectors - $1000 * 6 = $ 6000
Labtop - $ 1500
Plate - $ 30
posted by Mi-Jong Jang @ 9:23 AM
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