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| Mataroa vessel, (C) NZ Maritime Museum |
In particular, the aim of this project will be to: explore how such concept is interpreted when integrates into every day life; to construct a context through which to communicate –progressively- the concept of self-awareness to a (primarily) European audience operating within the age bracket of 20 to 70-years old. Ultimately, the project will explore the theme of personal ‘salvation’ as a state of mind gained through out a process of self-exploration. This idea is based on the fact that when a person starts to realise the framework within which its actions aim to function, he or she will embark on a psychotherapeutic process, which ultimately lead to self-awareness.
In order to develop the core idea on which the project's realisation will be based, theoretical work and research are essential prerequisites. More specifically, the components of my research will include: The concept of Archiving within visual culture as a form of conceptual mapping with which artists navigate and therefore, communicate to the viewer various states of being; the Photographic image as a document that reproduce to infinity ‘… what has occurred only once and cannot be repeated existentially.’ (Barthes, 1981 p.4); the ideal of Psychoanalysis as an existential itinerary undertaken by the therapist and patient together in order to gain a deeper understanding of the unconscious processes which take place in our minds and get expressed in all our relationships.
Furthermore, the practical work related to my research project will be to explore -through the design process- the possibility of communicating a particular ‘state’ (destination) through a synthesis (journey). The visual outcome of this project could possibly culminate into a sequence (e.g. mixed media installation) with which the audience could interact with and/or rearrange its components (experience), and therefore, to define its scheme (‘state’) –to some extend.
Nikos Georgopoulos,
London,
February 2012
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