I n t e r a k t i o n s - L a b o r

 

 

Suzanne Farkas

(Toronto)

 

Artist Statement

As an artist and professional environmentalist, I am interested in boundaries and connections - between physical and virtual, imagined and real, natural and constructed - that place that defines existence/identity, that place where one meets, connects and is stretched and transformed to other. I also am committed to building connections and community partly through interactivity and play.

Chairs delineate space, providing a location of perspectives in and of space and points of view, evoking a boundary between action / movement and contemplation/stillness/fixed, between participation and observation, public open and private contained, single chairs or grouped chairs imply individual relationships.

Project Plan:
In this project I want the audience to experiment and play with different perspectives and viewpoints between that of projected to that of being projected upon, between me, the artist, and you, of the audience, between stillness / passivity and movement/action; between being a tourist or being a local - within the context of Tibet and China relations, diaspora, identity and healing .