Window Mechanism, 2011

The installation is hanging between the gap of two buildings

The lines go into the tube shape as a beautiful geometry pattern

 

Window Mechanism

The window mechanism is installed across the gap of buildings which connect MA Interior and Spatial Design studio and MA Fine Art studio. I want to link two different spaces directly; the spaces have a certain degree of connection but do not always interact with each other. For example, they are both MA studio, and the students share the same MA lecture, they share the same workshop…etc. However, they seldom have interaction, not to mention work together. Students only see each other through windows. The installation can be an opportunity to link two spaces and create more initial possibilities of interaction through windows. It also tells everyone the relationship of two departments. It may inspire people a new way of improvement.

The hole of tube and black lines limits the view and view changes with the different position of tube from viewer. That is to say, both sides need to reach a consensus of tube distance with opposite one. They decide what they can see through tube to windows together.

YA-JU CHANG
MA Interior and Spatial Design (2010-2011)
Chelsea College of Art and Design
E-mail: yajuchang.uk@gmail.com

Reverse Voyeurism, 2011

The installtion was showing between 2 Sep - 8 Sep, 2011

in Chelsea College of Art and Deisgn 

 View from the standing bicycle wheel

  The show space 

 When spectator rotates the bicycle wheel, the lines 

become to a beautiful geometry shape

Viewing from the side of bicycle wheel

                                

                                 Book and business card at the show space




Reverse Voyeurism

The studio practice demonstrates the relation between neighbours and the voyeur through a mechanism device composed of the double-sided nature of constructions via standing bicycle wheels which replace the windows. The threads, which represent the view points of voyeur, attached to the rim of one wheel lead to another fixed bicycle wheel and end at the other side of the wall. As the first wheel is rotated by spectator, the threads twist and is restricted in the middle, mirroring the way a camera aperture restricts the amount of light that can enter the camera. When the twisted threads go to limit, then the bicycle will turn around to reversing side.

The installtion is a metaphor of reversing the roles of observer and those being observed. The role of a voyeur should be active and the observed always plays a passive role of “drive see”; however, the reversing wheel means swaping their character. Someone might spy on the voyeur at the same time, or, the observed knows the voyeur is watching on him or her and is looking back  (as in Rear Window) . To some degree, we also could say the voyeur looks at himself in a self-reflection position.




YA-JU CHANG
MA Interior and Spatial Design (2010-2011)
Chelsea College of Art and Design
E-mail: yajuchang.uk@gmail.com