Installation Work for Final Class

Installation Work for Final Class  :

By :

Saranya, Swara and Philip

What Is Behind The Image Is Concealed

Concept Note :

This attempts to play with the concept of sight and image. Every setting before our eyes can be considered an image, a snapshot, a photograph existing in that moment in which we see it. Our every day lives exist in the form of memories and those memories are often retrieved from what we have seen. Yet what is truly to be considered is perhaps invisible - it is beyond the visual. The image often is simply a veil, behind which something of importance may lie.

Here we try to compress a lifestyle underneath white sheets; every day objects that perhaps sum up a day in the human experience - an experience hidden by white. The image is a visual, but the visual is not clearly recognisable. 

This installation addresses one to look at living as an image, and then imply that there lies an entirely different meaning beyond that image existing as a realm we may explore. The realm that is concealed behind the image. 

A Viewer Interacting With The Instalment

Installation was done on :Tuesday 15th April 2014
On
Terrace of House Number 185, SFS Colony, Yelahanka New Town

A Conclusion of Sorts : The Beginning of Understanding Art

This course was an eye opener for me. It was a sort of quest. It managed to frustrate my mind by trying to debunk a vast majority of the knowledge that I knew or consider to believe especially when it came to art. It questioned and questioned and questioned the way I see and perceive art as  a whole and in the confusion I think I gained a whole new perception.
What is Art? Truly.
I don't think any of us will ever be able to answer that question in one definite form. I don't think any of us should. But by attempting to ask ourselves that same question over and over again and beginning to try and understand it using examples that are poles apart and then opposing it with a complete contradictory set of examples to what you just understood without giving in to peripheral preconceived notions about what Art is you can truly dive into its vast unending paradox drenched realm. You begin to understand and to realise how subtly beautiful this realm is.
Thats what this course did for me. It made me understand art in one form and just as I started to feel comfortable or familiar with the concept of that being art, it then placed art in another form and kicked me right in the ass. This happened again and again until it totally broke open the pot that I encased the concept of art within.
From the heated debates in class on subjects such as whether it is the artist or the art... to watching the numerous documentaries and films that showcased masterminds like Ai Weiwei and Mark Rothko .... to finally understanding and admiring Andy Warhol as an artist and the whole point of his work (I could never do so before)... to understanding Installation Art as a concept. And the ever present presence of questioning sprouting out from the urge from the facilitators side for us as students to question and never be satisfied with the answer ....to the numerous contradictory ideas to fly in and push out the ideas just proposed a second ago.
This class has been a wonderful Journey for me over the past few weeks and I wish it could go on as it comes to an end now. But this is just the Beginning of understanding 'Art'. This is the beginning of my next three years and I really think the questions my mind raised with the help of this class and the fact that I couldn't answer a majority of them makes it as one of the courses that has given me a rock solid foundation to what I'm about to experience and step onto next.

Exercise One

In the first class we were asked to take a space within the N3 campus and view and describe it as an installation. My group chose a spot that sits on the first floor but can be seen from the basement. For us the space resembled a cockpit for a future space station or the inside of a human being from the distant future. The absence of the chord extensions for one of the lights which we perceived to be the ears depicted the disintegration of an individual's potential to be in the now, the reality or even the disability of this individual to hear fully showing a clear decrease in a persons attention span. We called it 'The Control room' :

THE CONTROL ROOM

Imagine slices of window clouded over with dust and specks of burning white paint, behind which you can see blue, blue sky. 

On the sky is a stripe of smoke barrelling to the heavens of spaceships heading to Mars. 

The windows are placed at about fifteen feet above the ground. The ceilings are painted a stark white. You see, we are in the mind, the rearview mirror, the spectacles of the human mind, except time has gloriously passed. 

Not even the blue sky, with its strip of rocket smoke, is a sign of the past. 

There is a single white beam separating the white walls. There are two large glass electrical sockets with glass domes above the light bulbs on either side. One is connected to an electrical line that goes down the walls. The other is dysfunctional, has no line, alienated, pointless. 

We are within the brain of a futuristic human being and he faces sensory deprivation. He is only partially connected. 

The windows are his eyes, seeing into futuristic sky, swimming with spaceships and yet, these windows are dusty, paint-specked, unclear, dysfunctional. 

The mind of the human being sees into the future, and yet is unable to truly see. The mind of the human being has two electrical light ears, but he is partially deaf. 

Time has passed, and a spaceship goes to Mars. 

The Next class we watched a documentary film showcasing Ai Wie Wie which proved to be inspiring

The class after that we were asked to pair ourselves in groups of two and perform for the rest of college during lunch break. 

We chose to depict structure through a bunch of chairs that were placed one after the other forming a mini pathway within the usual corridor on the second floor and wanted to see if people adhere to a structure that was placed in front of them  but had not come to contact with before or instead breakaway and stick to routine. We video-recorded the whole thing and observed that a lot of people preferred to just break away from structure which was very interesting to watch