Inside a Lift

A lift, a rectangular parallelepiped with a door, could be seen as a completely simple space in our daily lives. According to the film, directed by Marc Isaacs in 2001, the filmmaker recorded the residents in a tower block lift in London. As those residents became trust him and start to make a joke or sometimes tell him about their lives and secrets. It is clear that even one square meter can be happened stories so differently. Those stories can happen in just few seconds, which overlapped to a new moving portrait again and again in the vertical community.

The imagination in a lift can is unlimited. Those drawings represent the possibilities that might happen in a lift. A dirty pervert, a woman doing her makeup, a couple arguing with each other or the residents are throwing their rubbish, for example. Some of the residents might know each other, some might not but all the stories may be related to each others. However, although the relation cannot be seen directly, there is something behind the surface, existing between the people. Looking at my subject in the 1st term, Bio-electromagnetic field, a simple space with different living aura, produced by human beings, the moving lift can be a good example to represent the idea of living aura.

Marc Isaacs. 2001. Lift.
http://www.secondrundvd.com/release_isaacs.php

A Motel Room

This is where people come and leave: leave wet towels on the bathroom floor, leave half-full beer bottles on the nightstand, leave the bed unmade, hair on the toilet seat, stains on the ceiling, glitter in the carpet, holes in the wall, leave their lives, a mess for the morning maid. And after an hour, a day, a month, they leave all that they have left. And you check in.
Lyndon Wade. 2009. Room 107: Twelves stories on the ground level.




Red Star Motel, a series of photographs is produced by a new Chinese magazine, O'zine, presenting different stories, including the topics of sex, murder, fake certificate, prostitution, drugs, kidnapping, etc., all of them happen in the same motel room. The same idea has been also used by American photographer Lyndon Wade with his project "Room 107" and Russian photographer Yaryshev Evgeny, "In Da Car." Those images are all good example to describe a simple space changed by living aura, experiencing different atmosphere and stories. During this week, I try to think about something related to the site in Soho. As one of the sites is in Regent Palace Hotel, the rooms in the hotel seems become an interesting object. People come. People go. After few minute cleaning, there are new customers come to the same room again and again. However, different people have various intentions to use the room. Because of this, different stories are happened and overlapped in the same room.

Reference List

Lyndon Wade. 2009. Room 107: Twelves stories on the ground level. http://lyndonwade.com/
O'zine. 2009. Red Star Motel. http://www.ozine.cn/ozine.htm
Yaryshev Evgeny. 2009. In Da Car.http://yd84.deviantart.com/gallery/#IN-DA-CAR

Decode - Digital Sensation

The improvement of digital technology has been providing designers a new way to present works. Especially interactive displays can be seen as a current trend that there has been a increasing number of artists and designers are using this method to create an animation object which changed by viewers’ behaviours. A space altered by human behaviours or we can say living auras, is one of the interests in my study. Therefore, there are several displays in the exhibition, Digital Sensation become a kind of inspiration for my study as an example to observe the different behaviours, changing auras and the altered space.

BODY PAINT 2009

Mehmet Akten (b. 1975 Turkey)

flight404.com

SOLAR 2009

Flight404 (est. 1999, USA)

Rober Hodgin(b. 1972, USA)

msavisuals.com

Oasis 2008-9

Everyware (est. 2007, South Korea)

Hyunwoo Bang (b. 1978, South Korea)

Yunsil Heo (b. 1979, South Korea)

everyware.kr

Dancing - An Example of Moving Aura