Mediator
For this project we were split into groups of six and we were made to build or show something that represented our experience of Hospitalfield. Whilst walking around Hospitalfield our group had strong feelings of being unsettled and there was an unknown eeriness to the place. At the site it was very quiet and the only noises to be heard were the ones creasted by us. This created a feeling of solitude, as if we were the only living things in an almost dead site. There was a lot of plant life within the site and a walled garde at the centre. There were spaces within that were tight and standing in them gave you a feeling of claustrophobia.
We wanted to convey all the feelings we felt so we built an installation to express this. We built a tunnel or maze that would explore a journey of senses. The tunnel had changes in height and floor level to give the sense of unknowing. It was also pitch black and the participant would wear headphones with eerie music to heighten the experience. The walls were covered in textured material so that the participant didn't like what they were touching because of the feeling of unknown. At the end of the tunnel we had a sheet where they had to write one word to describe there experience so that we could see if our installation was effective.
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