+ about the work

Displaced is a piece that interacts with its audience and the surrounding environment. Displaced achieves this through microphones installed in the installation space. While making this piece, I had in mind Gordon Pask’s essays, where he talks about “Architectural Mutualism,” explaining, "a building is only meaningful as a human environment. It perpetually interacts with its inhabitants, serving them on one hand and controlling their behavior on the other…” Displaced creates an unforeseen interaction between the inhabitant, the object, and the architectural space. It brings awareness to the audience through movement and sound and urges them to think about the cause and effect of their movements. It encourages meditation on how one can affect another being without being aware of it and the delicate balance between curiosity and care.

Four microphones are placed in different locations; three are in various parts of the room, farther from the sculpture, while one is placed very close to the sculpture. Microphones pick up the sound of the viewer, and the sculpture's behavior alters according to where the people are in the installation space. The sculpture moves fluidly when the people in the space are farther away from the piece and stops or moves more irritatedly when the viewer is close to it, as the microphone closest to the piece pics up the sounds. The audience can see the fluid motion of sculptures up close only if they are very, very quiet when they approach the piece