Autoscopy

This installation is created for the audience to experience an altered state of consciousness. It is also known by the term autoscopy; the experience in which the individual, while believing himself to be awake, sees their body positioned outside of their body. Also coming into play is idea of is what we see really what we perceive it to be? This installation invokes an experience in which the audience is aware of its surroundings but is gradually grasping a new dimension of what they are looking at and hearing.

Your body should start feeling as if it is floating while you’re mind has started to become distant form the reality of the room. The mind of the audience can be split into two directions:  It can either float away with the feeling of your body or if your mind is persistent it can start grasping the forms it is seeing.  The audience is unaware that while they start feeling the presence of their own body, the weight of their body sinking and the tingles in their fingers, they are really looking at forms of the human figure.  What they are looking at can emulate their own body creating a conundrum.  The slight irony to it, as the mind of the audience is unaware that they can be thinking about their own bodies projected as they are feeling the presence of these bodyscapes and forms instead. This creates layers of mental dimensions, which alters the conciseness of the audience and if successful the audience can experience a state of autoscopy through this experimental piece.  With the bodyscape like forms, the video clips of the human body both inside and out and the discrete sounds of melodic and trance inducing music: all these layers will form an altered consciousness of the awareness of your own body as the becomes one with the installation.