This semester I am aiming to investigate how much we can get into the sensual word of an animal as tiny as a gravel stone.
1) INTRODUCTION (TOPIC + CONCERNS)
We often wonder how it would be like to be very small (-like a mouse-) or very huge (-like a whale-). How would it feel like? What other ways of perception would reveal then?
At least when it comes to mammals our urge to understand the perception of these common fellows is present. It’s there, because we are also mammals, and we can somehow connect.Instead, when it comes to insects, or e.g. bugs we sometimes may forget to think of them as living beeings having senses and some kind of perception: sensing, living, or even FEELING beeings. But how might a bug feel? Do bugs know fear? Are they scared when a cyclist crosses their trail of path?
2) IDEA (PROPOSITION + INTENTION)
My project aims to convey a bugs viewpoint perception and therefore a box, a window from one side, and a screen from the other side (linked to a video camera (webcam)) will be used.
The visitor needs to take a certain position and by that a certain viewpoint to take to look into the box. By that he/she is urgend to feel the perspective of a bug – at least to that extend as we, human beeing, can do.
3) THE INSTALLATION
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