The elements of APHASIA
APHASIA is an immersive, convergent installation that has within it discrete elements that combine to create at atmosphere of missed communication, contested meaning, changing context and imprecise memory.
The elements within are:
- Entry installation - a red door through which you must pass through to enter APHASIA
- Tape and fog sculptural installation - masses of audio reel-to-reel tape suspended from the ceiling and fog hugging the floor create a sense of disembodiment and disconnection from the immediate physical surroundings. In moving within and through the tape installation, the spectator negotiates a sensory dissociation with the field of vision restricted (with tape gently falling across the face) and with sound emanating from above. The fog at floor level further reinforces this disembodiment, rendering the physical 'grounding' unseeable
- Quadraphonic sound installation - a quiet, understated sound composition based around the texts of letters to Darragh, and her own dreams spatialised within the gallery
- Infrasonic installation - an inaudible sonic installation that has an involuntary impact on the physiology of the spectator
- Video projection installation - a return to the red door presented in an unfamiliar and unknowing context...
Read and experienced together, these elements combine to create a new world that is at first experienced linearly, then simultaneously. It draws upon sight, sound, touch - and it explores the minutiae of personal (mis)understanding amplified to a universal experience.
Each element will have its own entry in this blog as they move independently, but interconnectedly, from conceptualisation through to resolution and production...
D&D
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