Questions?????
Q What is it?
It is an installation art piece that led to becoming a performance art piece with myself being the prototype.
Q Who is it designed for?
It is actually a little difficult to specify who exactly the audience is, for, the target is a vast one.
i would love to say the general masses. However, anybody who is able to understand and interpret the meaning and significance of their private space in their social world is the target audience of this art piece or experiment. If i were to distinguish them it would be men, women, boys and girls, with a specific age group starting from 10 years and on.
Q What is it designed to do?
It is designed to reinforce the meaning of owning your private space in public spaces in society. Factors of defining the appropriate meanings of what public and private spaces are will be addresses through this performance. It could also lead to a debate on what public and private space is, individually and its importance to every human member in the social dog-eat-dog world. Indirectly, it is designed to remind people their expected/ accepted and behavioral roles in their social circles or worlds.
Q What kind of technology does it explore?
As of now it doesn’t incorporate any sort of digital technology, but through the course of its development with time, the art piece will go through different stages of evolution with the help of several methods of prototyping and iterations, and once it approaches its stage of maturity i will undoubtedly find ways to incorporate a more modern and contemporary side to its functioning with the help of technology.
Q Why should we care about it?
Even though this might be lame and mere, the one motivation that drove me to redefining the importance and significance of private v/s public spaces is the fact that when I came to New York city a few months ago I was made to share a room with someone for the first time in my life. Me being the only child, I found it impossible to do so. On the other hand, I come from Dubai, which is a modern city but yet not as, it is heavily dominated by Islam where there are many restrictions and norms that control and drive peoples behavior outside their homes. For example, kissing on the streets in New York is acceptable for in Dubai one could be imprisoned for this act. Here already the debate of a private act being done in a public space arises. Wherein, one needs to determine that they are creating their private moments hence a private space in a public space in society.
This definitely can be defined as a culture-shock or a culture driven situation. Hence, we should consider there cultural barriers and other restrictions depending on the world or society we will in and begin to care about what is public versus what is private.
It is surely something we could care about as every human feels the need to seek a private spot/space/niche for themselves in this social world, however, people mught have different ways to actually inerpret their meaning of it.
Q Where will we see or what is the project’s life beyond the classroom, how does it make a difference?
This project is different as it starts in the classroom but is taken outside directly to the public to enhance the understanding and comprehension of this issue. It is going to be conducted in the real world and on busy streets and locations. It is devised to shock and arouse the sensitivities and emotions in the target audience. It is not just for self-fullfillment but also to make a statement in society.
How it makes a difference is mostly explained above about how this art piece/experiment will reconstruct, redefine and remind the ways and what is expected out of the people according to their social standing in the social world. To conclude, this is not necessarily a site-specific project.
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