Emily Windon The Proposed Work to be developed: Large platforms for viewing digitally projected images: The work utilizes the construction of large viewing platforms that serve to both uplift and isolate the audience. The platforms are made of timber and are like ladders, or raised plateaus which the viewer climbs. From the top of the platform the viewer observes digitally projected images. The platforms enable the audience to immerse themselves in the image being projected whilst leaving the security and stability of the floor area. The platforms are designed to be overwhelming in size and once they are climbed, the viewer shares in the feeling of strength that being part of a large structure confers. The platforms also allow the viewer to submerge into the space of the architecture as they leave the floor plane and enter the middle space of the environment. Once there, the images that are viewed are misplaced from their usual viewing perspective and this misalignment causes the habitual systems of automatic recognition to be shifted, offering clarity to perception and an upsetting of the usual harmony of the senses in interpreting material. My photographic work which will be seen from the viewing platforms is based on ideas of transformation, using the body as a reference point and utilizing the space surrounding the body as a key phase of the transformation process. The viewing platforms allow the space of the photographic, perfomative body to be aligned with the viewers own adjusted space of the gallery, creating new understandings and experiences.
Emily Windon The Proposed Work to be developed: Large platforms for viewing digitally projected images: The work utilizes the construction of large viewing platforms that serve to both uplift and isolate the audience. The platforms are made of timber and are like ladders, or raised plateaus which the viewer climbs. From the top of the platform the viewer observes digitally projected images. The platforms enable the audience to immerse themselves in the image being projected whilst leaving the security and stability of the floor area. The platforms are designed to be overwhelming in size and once they are climbed, the viewer shares in the feeling of strength that being part of a large structure confers. The platforms also allow the viewer to submerge into the space of the architecture as they leave the floor plane and enter the middle space of the environment. Once there, the images that are viewed are misplaced from their usual viewing perspective and this misalignment causes the habitual systems of automatic recognition to be shifted, offering clarity to perception and an upsetting of the usual harmony of the senses in interpreting material. My photographic work which will be seen from the viewing platforms is based on ideas of transformation, using the body as a reference point and utilizing the space surrounding the body as a key phase of the transformation process. The viewing platforms allow the space of the photographic, perfomative body to be aligned with the viewers own adjusted space of the gallery, creating new understandings and experiences.