So on to day 2; we began the day with a review of the previous day’s discussions and what ideas came out of it that we could visualise and produce. We agreed that these would be in the form of experiments that the group undertook that we would film and edit together in order to present, this matched the experimental thinking of the workshop and became spontaneous reactions to the concepts of ‘human’ and ‘object’.

The 3 main ideas became:

Laugh in a Jar – the idea that a laugh can become an object that you could keep in a jar. A jar that you could take out and hear the laugh when you need to be reminded of that certain person or a form of comfort. This is a human trait that is removed from the context of the human being, into something that is tangible and can be stored. But this laugh can still keep hold of a sense of humanity and being alive.

Objectified Skin – the morphing of hands into objects and objects into skin. Using texture as the main focus, in one aspect the hands are re-textured with object surfaces such as metal, sand, wood and in the other a mug re-textured with skin.

Human Lamp – the physical performance of people becoming a lamp. A very simple experiment that had a lot of impact, people were invited to become a lamp using a lampshade as a prop. People then chose their movement/method of turning their lamp on, this then triggered a projection of the lamp’s light behind them to create a physical and virtual representation of a human lamp.

Myself and Clive worked together with the students to conduct the experiments and capture the final outcomes.