Somewhere
-sensor triggered activated installation

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A continuing exploration of when different sounds are applied to certain movement/texture can change the viewer’s perception or experience.

I researched audiovisual relationships with theories from Gestalt psychology and Michel Chion’s theories of added value and synchresis. Using these theories, I analyzed different artists’ works that related to the phenomenon.

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The installation is based on the play Somewhere written by Marisela Trevino Orta. It is about the end of the world, how people are facing the lack of resources,and how they deal with their dreams and pursuits in life while the world is ending. Magical Realism is incorporated in this play where the protagonist Cassandra is looking for this group of hundreds of butterflies that are migrating, expressing the dreams and hope that later metamorphosed into acceptance or something else, by Cassandra herself turning into butterflies flying away. War, endings, and hope have been a very big theme on earth this year (these few years), and I really hope to create a theatrical experience that provokes some thoughts and resonance. It is an immersive walk-through experience in a room that is sized 15 by 20 feet.