3rd CCW Salon

What’s my purpose of outside exhibition?

These two days I took part in CCW 3rd Salon showing a video installation, i thinker. This time the form of presenting is slightly different from interim show, which is presenting three videos in small scale screens in a box, and view through a hole.

What’s my aim of this exhibition?

1, Present my work to different audience.

2, Get feedback from people from different blackground.

3, See other students’ work.

During the Salon, I chatted to some audience who from others colleges in order to get feedback. Totally different perspectives and feedback are got from the people I chatted with. Although only few discussion are related to my research area, I found it is very interested getting various perspectives, which would help in my next work.

Way of seeing & visual effect

Different scales of image could dominate audiences’ gaze in different level. Like this exhibition, way of presenting my videos in small scale, making audience viewing images through a hole, which give audience another feeling, a private view. And here it connected to the gaze, the pleasure of gazing at people’s bodies as objects and voyeurism . Mulvey, in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975), describes how gazing at a screen does two things. It involves the voyeuristic process of objectification and the narcissistic process of identification with an ‘ideal ego’.

After this exhibition, also because I am going to put on a performance in Jun, there are questions for me. What’s the aim for presenting a show outside? Getting different audience? What do I expect getting from them?