Students: Ellie Gavin, Paolo Puglielli, Aurora Wallenius
Tutors: Joan Planas, Miquel Santasusana, David Haro
Format: Wearable
Topic: Interactive Installation
Year: 2022
Our project explores how we now as grown adults deal with these harch realities. The user is sitting in a chair facing a television with a pair of glasses on. The user is happily distracted by the TV, watching silly cartoons and smiling to themself. However, the cartoons start to become more violent with war-like sounds. We layered sounds from the Ukraine war, 911, bombings from Northern Ireland during the troubles and as well as the terrorist attack in Norway in 2011. The user's facial expression changes, they are uncomfortable. The video continues, intensifying and speeding up. The yser brings their hands up to cover their eyes, sheltering themself, instigating the pink inflation around them. We see a close up as the air fills these bags. The user continues to cover their eyes as they become engulfed by the inflation.