The installation itself collates through the three piece’s to address and allow the audience to think about current issues with regards to sex and its development in modern sexual freedom, permitting them to ask is it or has it really been accepted in contemporary society?
The use of both videos within the installation conducts investigations into Laura Mulvey’s theories within Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, 1975, that cinematic separation allows the audience an authentic voyeuristic experience. This can be achieved through the effect of lighting, darkness and shading. This promotes the ideas of exhibitionism and connects the performer/video and the audience to their repressed desires. It is accountable to these ideas and elements of my previous practice that within the installation I only place two chairs back to back for viewing the video pieces on opposite walls. I feel the audience better equip to these undertones when viewed without various distractions.
To enter the space the public will enter through a centre partition in red curtains an insinuation of penetration of the space, soft red light will highlight both the podium where the speech performance will take place and the text pieces will remain following the performance, and softly light the two red leather chairs placed arch to arch imitating the shape of the vulva facing both video projections, projected from above.
Ideas of how the installation come together were informed by Edward Keinholz, Roxys, 1960-61. In which he imitates the room of a prostitution house by using furniture and lighting to emphasis his installation. This helped to inform my decision on the chairs I have selected; worn Edwardian chairs slightly different in form however the broken spring cushions are covered in (wipe clean) red leather (See images bellow).
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Example projection of video and text piece (sizing)
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