The Exhibition Spaces & Features
This exhibition could be held somewhere such as The Welcome Collection London, as the institute holds small, interactive exhibitions that focus on combining science, healthcare and art – allowing me to transform my theoretical content into an exploitative, informative and interactive experience.
As an object, the calling card pre-dated social media in the sense that it was a way that a person could present themselves. Within the exhibition, there is a machine that generates an instant card for the visitor which creatively displays a word that they would chose to describe themselves. Words are an important element of the self as they are the way we describe ourselves.
As well as the theoretical background of the self, perhaps the most obvious definition of the self is that of a persons aesthetics. The camera produces an instant photograph of the visitor in order for them to add to their pack representing the surface level of the definition of the self. The exhibition layout will consist of areas dedicated to different theories and ideas explored, there will be video projections on the walls, floor and ceiling – fully immersing visitors in the experience. As visitors walk into the exhibition, lights will be bright and the floor raised, as they move through the ideas and towards the unconscious theory, the floor will subtly slope and the lights dim representing delving deeper into the human psyche. The illustration above shows an inside view of the exhibition space where visitors can be seen taking materials from the walls as well as engaging with elements such as the ‘card generator’.Whilst in the 'unconscious' area of the exhibition, one of the experiences the visitors can engage with is the Freudian Dream Analysis experience. This consists of a fully immersive, audio visual experience which makes the participant feel as if they are in a psychoanalysis session with Sigmund Freud.