Documentation: Research Project, 'June 14, 2012', participatory installation (posted on 7/7/12)

Saturday 7 July 2012

Research Project, 'June 14, 2012', participatory installation (posted on 7/7/12)

'June 14, 2012', participatory installation. Photo by N. Georgopoulos.

My research project at Camberwell College of Arts is an enquiry into the concept of self-awareness -a state that one can gradually acquire through a journey of self-exploration. More specifically, the aim of this research is about communicating as well as exploring how such a concept translates into real life.

After a lot of research and tests, I came up with the idea to communicate a particular state (destination) through a synthesis (journey). On the basis that self-awareness presupposes experience, the project culminated on June 14th, 2012, into an interactive installation of the same name, consisting of a ready-made bookshelf (containing objects-symbols) and of a photo booth (mixed media) -symbolising respectively the concept of (our) background and that of identity. People were invited to choose an object from the bookshelf that they could identify as a point of reference to who they are; and to take an identity photograph with that object by using the photo booth –essentially communicating that; in real life, people ‘acquire’ their identity by becoming aware of themselves.

The id photographs as well as the interviews of the participants regarding their choice of object will be included into a year book-like catalogue which I am currently designing and will display at the Final show in September.