Tracing Spaces

Tracing Spaces probed how reflections processed within site-specific art enable

a re-framing of the concept of the ‘social.’

Reporting the investigation on the utilization of reflection during art making,

the installation challenged the perfunctory engagement with the terms ‘social’ and ‘art’.

 

Disrupting the convenient frame of art should become, it promoted context-conscious practitioners to critically reflect upon the mechanisms they are positioned within.

 

The installation was situated in the back of HART Haus,

the workstation area of The Buoy, acknowledging two levels of context.

 

Firstly, it addressed the two practitioners’ positioning

within a spatialized concept of the ‘social’ in the studio setting.

 

Secondly, it was designed to afford reflection onto the everyday engagement of image-making

by challenging the audience to take a selfie within the frame

without capturing any of their own reflections in the mirrors behind them.