Scenario

As previously stated, interFREQUENCIES will be a conversation between art piece and participant with the artwork´s fragility and vulnarability as main topics with distance as language. A constant loop between the sensors attached to the body of the participants and the sensor of the artwork is created to develop this communication: the sensors measure the approach to the artwork by the participant, an audio-visual response is generated and this is sensed by the participant evoking a new kind of motor response that restarts the entire process as is shown in figure 12.

Fragility and vulnerability appear at borders of comfort, both indicating an apparent but sudden danger of destruction or hurting. As humans we create a set of boundaries and borders of which not to cross both unspoken, as norms and values and written down in the law. The artwork does not possess the tools to create the same set of rules that we created over years of dialogue. InterFREQUENCIES provides the artwork with tools to indicate its comfortable borders to the participants of the exhibition.

To develop a first understanding of this border among the participants, the project aims to use space in such way that a forced interaction is created at the start of the experience, as is shown in Fig. 12. Participants are, by merely the layout of the room, required to closely pass one of the artworks, thereby initiating a response and realising their effect.

These tools should create a sudden discomfort along the preset borders of the different artworks to state that the participant is getting too close. This discomfort is created by the disruption of the artwork. The calming sounds fade and the play of light gets disturbed by a stroboscope creating fragmentations of the visible, thus disorienting the participants and invading the calmness of the exhibition.

As shown in figure 13, the approach is connected to the intensity of disturbances. The closer a participant gets to the artwork the higher the frequency of disturbance.

This same intensity gradient is also applied to the amount of people approaching the artwork, therefore the more the artwork is ´threatened´ the higher the intensity of the disturbance, adding to the concept of borders and boundaries.