Critical/Theoretical writing

What if a piece of work could disrupt your thinking through sound and visual effects, engaging the brain’s natural perceptual processes? By engaging the brain’s natural perceptual processes. My work explores how sound and image can trigger the mind to construct imagined environments that feel real. The work takes advantage of the brain’s ability to reconstruct environments, allowing the viewer to ‘travel’ into an imaginary space, a process that already occurs unconsciously in daily life. This idea of ‘travelling’ is central to my work: even while I am physically present in one place, what I see, hear, and feel can shape my perception, constructing a scenario that is not physically present. This matters because it reveals how creativity works: the brain can take small sensory cues a sound or an image and use them to construct an experience that runs parallel to physical. This emerges through the combination of sound and image, creating a thought based experience parallel to. A well-known artist similarly explores the same theme as me is John Cage. He explores the idea of how context changes the meaning of sound. Debating how the context of what you see or from where the sound comes from can alter the meaning of sound, which result into a making you believe the sound is produced by something else. In addition, your brain uses the image as a contextual frame for the sound. All those actions have reaction that listening to a few questions like: “Does a sound without a visual context loses its identity?”. What if you manipulate the viewer into thinking the sounds is produced by something but actually it’s not? Moreover, it challenges the present time of the viewer since its “travelling” you into a non-existing world. As an example in my video piece, the sound mirrors the different possibilities of the origin of the sound. Since its displayed in a website that people are going to use their phone to access it using a manipulating lens, the work treats the smartphone not as a tool but as a co author of emotional experience. Having a familiarity with the exhibition space. Furthermore, the exhibition space will be up only for a limited period as Cage uses the same technique in his work (Cage, J. (1952) 4′33″. Musical composition, first performed at Maverick Concert Hall, Woodstock, New York.). He created a specific time period to show his actual piece, so I used that technique on my website. Overall, my exhibition is about noticing how easily our minds shift and create new spaces from sound and image. I don’t want to give answers, but to let viewers become aware of their own perception and how it shapes what they experience.