Installation, Projection & Sound, BA (Hons) Interactive Arts
Manchester School of Art: End of Course Exhibition
A large-scale installation combining constructed form, projection and live sound.
This work was developed as my end of course exhibition while studying BA (Hons) Interactive Arts at Manchester School of Art. The installation was constructed from layered card forms, built up to create a fragmented physical environment that occupied the exhibition space.
Projected imagery was mapped directly onto the structure, interacting with its surfaces and contours, while sound was played through the installation to create an immersive, unstable environment. Together, the materials formed a broken landscape, recognisable in its references to everyday spaces, but distorted, contorted and layered through repetition and disruption.
The work explored ideas of place, fragmentation and perception, using low-cost, temporary materials alongside projection and sound to transform familiar elements into something unsettled and unstable. Rather than presenting a fixed scene, the installation functioned as an environment to be entered, experienced and navigated.
From the Journal
The Degree Show
A dated entry from the 2007 Interactive Arts final show.
Questions
What was the piece?
A large-scale installation built from layered card, with imagery projected onto it and recorded sound played through the space. It was my end of course exhibition for BA (Hons) Interactive Arts.
Did it have a title?
No. It was made as the degree show piece and never given one.
Where and when was it shown?
Next to the Holden Gallery at Manchester School of Art, for three weeks in 2007. It was not shown anywhere afterwards.
How big was it?
Roughly five metres square and two metres high.
What carried through into later work?
Fragmentation, shapes, angles and depth. Those keep coming back, most obviously in the pattern work.