As I plan on relying on audience interaction with my piece, I will also need to develop a sucessful method of getting them engaged in the first place. My reason for wanting audience participation is to hopefully transfer a message to the audience of how we are going to have to work hard if we are to be able to repair and maintain our natural world. What better way to get this message across than to request the to exhert their energy to maintain the living organisms in the installation.
Its all very well building manually operated pumps and possibly turbines, but how do I get the audience involved?
Some ideas which I have contemplated so far are;
Using a clever title to provoke the audience to engage.
Mention ‘audience participation’ in my artist statement, and post in the surround space.
Provide instructions.
Involve a reward system.
Project a video of the installation in use.
So far I am leaning towards the Idea of adding it into my artist statement, and possibly adding a video of the piece in use, however as I already plan to use three projectors for my other piece, I might consider displaying on a monitor instead.
If anybody out there just so happens to read this, and has any suggestions, please could you comment.
Thanks.
