Traveling Spaces
We often do not know what it is we want to say before we have some one to say it to: Because understanding is not something that is, but something that happens
- an encounter.
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Traveling Spaces is a project consisting of installations and text. The project is based on a hypothetical / fictional journey where the different installations, the Traveling Spaces marks one night's campsite. I explore these spaces as an image of man and the mental space that we all carry with us all the time.
Just as man has therefore the Traveling Spaces one utsideside and an inside. The outside / of the design, but also hides the space created on the inside, so you have to move around and go into the installations to form a view of the whole and the context.
Inside is a separate universe, depending, yet different from the outside. Both outside and inside changed and developed, because of meetings that occur during the journey. At each campfire is "room" little changed from last night's camp, about two months the "room" have changed even more.
As humans, we seek to share our experiences of the world with each other. Open us up or invite others into. At the same time we also need to protect ourselves against the same reality and the other's eyes. We fear not being understood, at the same time so we also need dialogue with others in order to understand ourselves. One barrier is the communication form. How can one invite another person into their own enclosed and private "mental space". This is the issue I am dealing with in this project.
It is my own journey I describe, since my mental space is the only thing I can legitimately comment on. When I call it a fictional journey as it is because it is not strictly talking about a trip in the traditional sense, but a kind of hunting and documentation of my fascination with the reality around me. As an explorer I collect and archive the impression, in the form of photos, texts and sound recordings.
Using different materials I create as physical avatars or manifestations of my mental camps to examine the physical space can describe the mental space, in the hope that the materials and shape can provide a language for the non-verbal. The "physical space" has the the advantage over the "mental" that other people can be invited to a sensory encounter, and that's what I want to do.
Just as man has therefore the Traveling Spaces one utsideside and an inside. The outside / of the design, but also hides the space created on the inside, so you have to move around and go into the installations to form a view of the whole and the context.
Inside is a separate universe, depending, yet different from the outside. Both outside and inside changed and developed, because of meetings that occur during the journey. At each campfire is "room" little changed from last night's camp, about two months the "room" have changed even more.
As humans, we seek to share our experiences of the world with each other. Open us up or invite others into. At the same time we also need to protect ourselves against the same reality and the other's eyes. We fear not being understood, at the same time so we also need dialogue with others in order to understand ourselves. One barrier is the communication form. How can one invite another person into their own enclosed and private "mental space". This is the issue I am dealing with in this project.
It is my own journey I describe, since my mental space is the only thing I can legitimately comment on. When I call it a fictional journey as it is because it is not strictly talking about a trip in the traditional sense, but a kind of hunting and documentation of my fascination with the reality around me. As an explorer I collect and archive the impression, in the form of photos, texts and sound recordings.
Using different materials I create as physical avatars or manifestations of my mental camps to examine the physical space can describe the mental space, in the hope that the materials and shape can provide a language for the non-verbal. The "physical space" has the the advantage over the "mental" that other people can be invited to a sensory encounter, and that's what I want to do.