"Crime" Outlines

Today we shot our footage for our Installation Art project. Technically we were supposed to do that tomorrow but another group has chosen the same location as us so we couldn't film.

Our chosen location is the Black corridor in the Architecture building. There were several reasons for our choice:

1. It is black and our subject/s contrast well against the background.
2. There is a constant flow of people travelling between buildings.
   
3. The corridor can be easily accessed, which allows us greater freedom whereas filming is         concerned.

Now to the concept. The installation is a mixture of social experiment and art. The objection is to explore human behaviour and in particular, the nature of curiosity. Members of our group lay down on the ground in a specific pose, which was outlined in masking tape. In the final piece we explain that the installation was exhibited for 5 days and on each day a new outline would appear. By the end of the week, the whole corridor is covered in body outlines. There is no specific order that the outlines need to appear on the ground - the more random the better. And we encourage them to overlap as that creates an interesting visual effect.

At first, we were planning to film the people's reactions to outlines only, but we quickly realised as we were setting up, that people seemed interested in what we were doing so we documented that as well.

As a result, our installation now has 2 experimental conditions: during set-up and post set-up.

Above are some photos of the outlines.