Within Outside

An immersive installation exhibiting in early December, at 30Upstairs Gallery, Wellington.

This project is the second in a series exploring the phenomenon of "reality". My installation environments involve the audience entering inside the work in order to activate the work. As our everyday lives accelerate into a digitally navigated world, I am interested in building environments that reconnect our senses and body to space, where spontaneous human interaction may occur. The playful and joyful nature of the work creates accessibility to people of all ages.

This project reflects upon the relationship between our psychological and physiological selves, the experience of our inner and outer bodies in space, prompted by a world of sensory experience. It responds specifically to the quirky characteristics of the gallery spaces and plays with the natural light paths of the sun. Reflection, air currents, sound and tempo are also used to push the goer into unfamiliar states - sometimes alarming, often tranquilizing but always at some point allowing the goer to "drop their guard", to shift to a new experience.