Disappointed Narcissus

This installation expects at least two spectators participation. Each spectator is invited to stay and stand in front of a projection screen. His/her live image is captured and projected back on the screen, thus, the spectator looks at the screen as if he/she is looking at a normal mirror. However, the mirror does not reflect a full image as the spectator expects, but an incomplete image masked and shaped by an uneven outline. The uneven outline actually comes from the captured image of another spectator.

This work is my response to the studying of consciousness in second-person perspective or intersubjective, challenge the traditional concept of Cartesian ego, in which we treat ourselves as private, independent, isolate self-sustained individuals in the world. If relationships occur, it is just secondary to our existence. Similarly, we just expect a full reflection of ourselves in the mirrors; and the images would not change provided that we do not move. I am the only one who has the total control to change my own self-image. However, what my spectators get in this installation is a reflected self-image shaped or masked by the images of others. In De Quinceys (1999) definition of strong-experiential meaning of intersubjectivity, whether a person is conscious, or his/her experience of what-it-feels-like-to-be a person, is thoroughly dependent on the being and presence of all others. Not only the content in his/her consciousness (e.g. thought, beliefs, images, awareness) is influenced by the relationship with others, but also the fact of his/her consciousness, i.e. intersubjective ontologically precedes subjective. I cannot be I am without my mutual co-arising and engagement with others.

Detail: http://www.huiwaikeung.org/?p=72

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