This type of fan has been used throughout antiquity. Unchanged for thousands of years. A fan such as this is the first tool humans crated to control and manipulate air. And we want to reference this by its use.
The suspended fan acts and as sensor. It shows the air flow in a given space by movement. like a flag or wind-sock, its activated by air-flow and turbulence.
Installed in a space, a cluster of these objects give awareness of the circulation and airflow of an indoor environment.
last week, Dr Tweendale was talking about how throughout history humans and sort shelter and safety in building structures. These structures now offer their own threats.
Awareness sound physicality
We wanted to make an environment where the viewers are made aware of others sharing the indoor air of the shared environment.
With room capacity in mind, we would have a sound track that increased or decreased in scale and intensity depending on how many people are sharing the rooms atmosphere.
The installation
Suspended, moving speakers are hung in grid formation from the ceiling. A pool of round focused light on the floor underneath each one captures the shadow movement’s. Giving a visual layout of the sound overhead.
All sound is off, As a viewer enters, a speaker will active with sound and movement. This repeats as each new visitor enters until all speakers are playing. Mirroring this build up of people, the sound track starts soft and somewhat gentle, as more visitors enter, more speakers will active, each time with a more dissident / noisier tone, so that when all speakers are sounding the volume of will be a dense, atonal mass, in turn having a physical effect on the visitors making them feel like they want to leave.
