Pure Taste Indicator - Artist Page

The installation is part of my practice based research PHD and it is aimed at creating a dialogue with the audience around issues key to my art practice: space, embodiment and agency. I want to create a space of visceral experience for the audience, a space that will bring forth their agency so they can contribute to my research by sharing their experience, and more importantly their emotional reaction to the installation. I hope that by sharing those experiences, the audience will help me confirm or challenge some of my hypotheses. I am proposing to turn the room into a garden, of black and grey daffodils, planted into a thin layer of soil. The installation would ideally be housed in a white cube, with a singular path ending into a circle in the middle of the room. It is therefore impossible to just rush through the space, there is a designated space in the centre to allow enough time for the viewer to feel, embody the experimentation. This is critical as we so often are rushing along straight path in our build environment, only thinking of our destination, often completely missing out or locking out our surroundings. The piece is a metaphor for our world, becoming increasingly similar to the immaterial digital world. I am hoping to create a strong feeling of loss, that will engage the audience into a discussion around the need for emotion and sensory in our modern world. The daffodils are representing our technical world and the soil reminds us of our materiality. A key hypothesis to my research is that by disrupting cognition, the human nature is unable to accept the absence of meaning and the viewer has to construct its own meaning by using their own agency and imagination. It is my ultimate belief that it is healthy emotionally, culturally and socially, to disrupt readily made meanings so that we can practice our own imagination, and learn to construct our view of the world or even carry on imagining alternatives. Meaning is deconstructed through the use of con