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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Preparatory drawings. |
While reassessing the idea of creating a sequence (
Concept 3.1) composed by a
family album and a
yearbook -as a symbolism of the journey through which an individual acquires progressively his or her identity, I realised that what this sequence was lacking about was the actual journey. Through this process it became clear that you cannot really communicate a concept that -de facto- presupposes experience without its actual experience. On that basis, I reworked the aforementioned sequence and came up with a new idea that emerged through the self-critique and reassessment of the problematic aspects of
Concept 3.1.
In particular, this concept (3.2) refers to the design of an installation, which aims at communicating self-awareness by setting up a context for an existential journey. Its visual form will be composed by a bookshelf full of things and a photo booth, symbolising respectively the concept of 'background' as well as that of 'identity'. By inviting people to participate and explore the bookshelf in order to choose an object that they realise it has contributed to who they have become, I will ask them (image 8) to take it into the photo booth and take a picture of them with it (image 4-7), hence, reproducing into infinity
''... what has occurred only once and cannot be repeated existentially''; the moment that they became aware about an aspect of themselves. Thus, conceptually the installation will be composed by our experience of an (allegorical) itinerary that goes
progressively from our background to the acquisition of our identity.
On that basis, the installation (the context) will (hopefully) trigger an open and random (but designed as such) performance that will be filmed as a single shot video (image 3) in order to culminate into the final outcome of my research project that will be exhibited in the degree show as a video installation and a publication. The former will be the documentation of the journey from 'embarkation' and the latter will contain all the photographs that people took in the photo booth (image 16-18). This concept will be titled after the date that is going to take place (e.g.
June 25, 2012) re-enforcing the idea that a moment which cannot be repeated existentially has been captured in time.
As far as concerns the space that this participatory installation can take place and be recorded,
Camberwell Space (image 9) is one of the most suitable, since lots of people can access it, as opposed to an isolated studio somewhere in the college. In addition,
Camb Space has the infrastructure for accommodating such an installation in terms of lighting, status and so on, so forth. What is more, there will be a 4-member supporting team (including the writer) for 'controlling' the whole situation.
In conclusion, the two problems that emerged out of
Concept 3.1 such as the difficulty of organising different photo shoots for handling so many different people as well as the exclusion of the feeling of a journey and that of it’s experience seem to be resolved by the current concept
-June X, 2012. Despite the fact that this may go horribly wrong, I strongly believe that this idea is very relevant; minimal; strong and –if designed and implemented carefully will- address exactly the objectives of my research project. In other words, I believe that this is the core idea of this research project.
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Preparatory drawings |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Preparatory drawings |
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| Photo booth tests |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Research for a space suitable for the installation. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Research for bookshelf systems. Print screen. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Research for bookshelf systems. Print screen. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Research for bookshelf systems. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Research for bookshelf systems. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Photo booth study. 'Rough Trade', Brick lane, London. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Photo booth study. 'Photo Centre', Oxford covered market, Oxford. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation-performance. Photo booth study. 'Tesco', Angel, London. Photo by N. Gergopoulos. |
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| Installation-performance catalogue., layout and typography tests. Camb MA Graphics studio, Wed-3-May. Photo by N. Georgopoulos |
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| Installation-performance catalogue., layout and typography tests. Camb MA Graphics studio, Wed-3-May. Photo by N. Georgopoulos |
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| Installation-performance catalogue, layout and typography tests. Camb MA Graphics studio, Wed-3-May. Screen shot. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation graphics. Instructions on how to participate. |
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| 'June X, 2012', installation graphics. Identification for the supporting team.
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| 'June X, 2012', Installation-performance catalogue. Mock-up. |
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| 'June X, 2012', Installation-performance catalogue. Mock-up. |
Nikos Georgopoulos
London,
May, 2012
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