‘So Fa’ was an interactive installation
which consisted of a back lit, twin-seater settee, with an animated image of a
tropical fish tank projected on it and the bubbling sounds of the tank emanating
from within.
‘Aquarium’ also an interactive
installation, was sited in two separate rooms. In the first room the viewer was
faced with a large tropical fish tank (and fish) mounted in a white cuboid
opposite a plain wall painted in cobalt blue. A hidden video camera filmed (in
stop motion format) through the fish tank, the audience as they watched the
fish. Suspended in the centre of the next room hung an opaque sheet of glass
(7ft x 5ft) recreating a larger than life 2 dimensional aquarium on to which was
projected the real time images from the hidden camera with a resonating aquatic
sound track.
Both pieces explored in different ways the
interrelation of domestic objects and their culture. The context of the objects
were changed and expanded from the ordinary into the extraordinary. The
interaction of the audience was integral to the works, their reactions and
interactions were implicit, denying closure or completion, thus creating an on
going focus back onto the domestic and the bizarre.