Idea for exhibition: sensory accessory

Inspired by the variation and unpredictability of Brick Lane, I am wondering how we perceive everyday surroundings. How do we filter, connect, and recognize all the complex and overlapping information acquired by our sensory detectors? If sensing is a very private and subjective procedure, how easily would we be manipulated unconsciously?

Since vision domains most parts of the way we feel, I started by making a kaleidoscope and transformed it into different ways of seeing. Through the visual experiment, I was getting interested in the possibility of the way we read everyday life by other mixing other senses.

In this exhibition, my idea is to make a collection of accessories which allows people to wear and to experience different ways of sensing. By connecting individual sensory detector, people might start to think about the interaction and contradiction of stimulation, and reinterpret what they really “feel”. Though it is still a rough idea, for example, observatory such as a combination of gloves and facial mask might give a chance of “the touch of smell”. The accessories might help to create fresh experience of joining our Brick Lane Party.

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