Installation View
Had to do it in my bedroom… Was going to just stick prints on the white walls. Then I suddenly thought I could use the frame I used in the photos:
Shooting Plan 3
Still exploring interacting with empty objects in inappropriate environment or with inappropriate pairing:
- Eating & drinking with empty dishes + teapot + phone on stairs
- Getting/putting hangers from/to washing machine
- Washing hands with empty hand wash and water filter
- Plug with inappropriate plugs
- Cooking with empty hob + lid on bed
Shoot each scene for 3 min with moments of my absence, long & close shots. Record sound by phone.
The Experience of Architecture
Malleable effects brought about by direct human influence do not lose significance at the end of childhood, but remain vital to adults of every age, for their essential motive, in the words of psychologist Karl Groos, is to find ‘joy in being a cause’, exploring the latent mutation of things plastic with change and revealing that we are producers of those effects. If man ‘experienced himself as entirely passive, a mere object’, echoes Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, ‘he would lack a sense of his own will, of his identity. To compensate for this, he must acquire a sense of being able to do something’, Fromm continues, ‘or to use the most adequate English word, to be “effective”… To be able to effect something is the assertion that one is not impotent, but that one is an alive, functioning, human being. To be able to effect means to be active and not only to be affected, to be active and not only passive. It is, in the last analysis, the proof that one is. The principle can be formulated thus: I am, because I effect.’
Henry Plummer
The evidence of existence.
Eva Wang 