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