User:Luisa Moura/research/work/Luisa Moura, body awareness, 2014
These are prototypes for live size installations, they all have to do with body awareness or self-perception in different ways The human template corridor is a literal application of an ideal body prothesis, since the modern age we keep on speaking on the ideal measurements for a spatial environment, for architecture, that comply with those of the human body and its possible range of movements. There were plenty of experiments ranging from the organization and dimensioning of functional parts in a building to futuristic experiments of individual sheltering. The corridor looks obviously pretty oppressing and despite all its theoretical charge its main goal is to bring the experiencing of the space onto the skin. If in one hand architecture tends to still rely on body related functional measuring in order to ground itself in other it tends to get totally detached from materiality in the way it is designed and consumed (...)
The three boxes installation has soft different materials inside each one of them and a visitor would have to rub his/her body against it in order to go through. Surface microphones installed along it would record and play live, substantially amplified, the sound produced by this contact. Once again is about bringing the boundaries of space onto the skin and also to make the user aware of the consequences produced by his/her own presence (...)
The "mirror" installation is a Magritte Revisited prototype. A camera installed on the back wall records the visitor from behind and plays it live in front of him on an HD screen. The image displayed should be as sharp as possible (...)
