installation view; participating as a "spirit"
in the dark rooms where we hid ourselves and the small things that kept us alive is an immersive, site-specific, participatory installation based on memories of my childhood bedroom. Each participant enters the exhibit alone and is encouraged to first disrobe fully in the enclosed chamber at the entrance. A red light outside signifies when the exhibit is occupied.
Once inside, the participant will hear songs I wrote and recorded in my bedroom as a teenager. Objects in the room appear in the lyrics. The participant is invited to lie naked on the bed and experience the songs in this recreated environment.
Creating this space outside of its original context serves as a greater analogy of leaving painful circumstances and reimagining them in a positive, safe, and entirely new environment. The objects, too, are new things put into a facsimile of the past to relive and reshape a scene that no longer exists.
The space, materials, and entire experience examines the memories we hold onto and how they effect us for the rest of our lives even after we have moved on.
There is a journal outside the space if the participant wishes to share their story.
All concepts, creative direction/installation design, music and recordings, lighting design, key installation fabrication, set dec & dressing, photography, photo-manipulation/editing, and modeling/performance by Aleister Eaves
