In my brain.

I’ve been trying to seek what I really want to do this year and I’m always bringing my little notebook with me for picking up some ideas. Sometimes I could find something very interesting, which can be my inspiration. However, after embarking on the VLP course, my brain has become a bit complicated because all the ideas come up together and I find it difficult to organise them in the right way.

Let me try to remember where the starting point was. The first time I was interested in outdoor space was last year when I was doing my foundation course. As a final work, I made a kind of travelling set for a play, which didn’t need a specific place to perform so everywhere could be a theatre. The main point about the play was the interaction between the performers and the people in the place where the play happens. (I will explain about the play in the presentation) At that time I realised that performance is not only performed in a specific world but also everywhere in our lives.

The reason why I’m interested in the interaction between objects and people or people and people is that because I was inspired by an illuminated installation ‘Volume’ at the V&A museum. It could be called an installation but after I experienced the work with other people, I thought it could be a stage. Most people including me were moving their bodies and seemed like they were talking each other by not using languages or texts but by eye contact or body language. It means language isn’t the only way to communicate anymore.

If so, how did they, those in the middle of the installation, communicate with each other? Probably it was because they felt similarly.

What provoked them to behave in a similar way? It’s definitely not about languages. I would say that is about human senses. There were circumstances, which provoke people, for instance, in the ‘volume’ which were probably the sound and the colours. I found that they are actually related with hearing and seeing. At this point I was curious whether there can be more elements that make people able to communicate with others.

Now, these kinds of questions deliberately come up in my brain and make me feel dizzy. Nevertheless, asking questions can be the reason why I’m doing this course and also can be good evidence for developing my work.