Room for Disruption
Room for Disruption, creates a corporeal experience at the fulcrum of my structuralist and political practices as an artist. My intention is to allow the viewer to be confronted with multiple sets of cues that would bring their attention to the act of seeing, image as subject, and the function of perspective in the understanding of war.
Devised as a small enclosed space, this installation creates a place in which one can discover and survey a set of photo-based collages that, when viewed cumulatively, compound to create a larger experience. By engaging with metaphors and symbols, I aim to investigate our cognitive awareness of the way visual perception through images informs our understanding of the enemy. I explore the role of the image and the significance of the camera in formulating opinion. I draw on concepts such as censorship, scale, the body as a site of action or violence through the relationship between sight and insight. As a polemic response to my surroundings and our relationships to the mediated image, I address these concepts by examining the inherent problems in perception and representation, in how they relate to conception.
Room for Disruption challenges the normative relationship to the photographic image in defining conflict. The installation re-mediates images drawn from the mediascape, and is designed to intervene into the very perspectival frames of vision.