For my next installation, I was thinking about making my piece centered around the feeling of being trapped and/or on display, like a zoo animal. My plan was to utilize a small room to act as the "cage" or terrarium/tank that the viewer will be the direct participant and subject. Using projections of zoo-goers or pet-owners, etc. on the walls looking at you like a small animal, and possibly using a mesh screen/fence or glass wall, the participant should feel as if they are a small animal being watched in a cage.
The purpose of this is to make the participant, as well as the audience, feel how the animals feel when us humans lock them up for our entertainment. The direct message should be a sense of entrapment, but the deeper message I will be trying to evoke is to first-hand experience the morality of locking exotic animals up so the audience can have their individual feelings/make their own opinions/conclusions on this topic.
In more specifics:
-you/the participant is the lizard/pet/animal
-the space used is in a small room but supposed to make you feel like you're inside the cage
-crickets/worms/food crawling around you
-human looking at you from outside the cage (face is pressed up against the glass)
-using a human-shaped shadow of prisoner/prison clothes to pretend to be the participant's shadow
What I shall project:
Wall/floor- shadow of animal/bearded dragon
Wall/floor- worms/crickets/food
Wall- person's face up against glass
Wall- person tapping on camera/glass (like finding nemo)
Materials:
Projector
Laptop
Participant
Illustrator/photoshop
Premiere Pro
MadMapper
Timeline:
March 19- Arrange what room installation will take place in
March 20- Decide what will be projected; what will be projected on each wall/surface
March 20- Figure out where the participant will be relative to the room and animations
March 30- Complete animations
March 30- Test out/coordinate finished animations in the room
March 31- Final run through
April 1- Film final installation
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