2fold
2017 | Social Object
Explores associations and connotations around objects and how their characteristics identify within a context of subculture.
The Intention and premise of the 2fold project is to explore associations and connotations around objects, and how their movements and characteristics identify an object within a context or subculture. All objects have a purpose and within that purpose there is a backstory, a context that object finds itself within. What happens when we take two objects at either end of the contextual spectrum? One representing movement in its free form and another in its restrictive. What happens when we blend the two objects together, does the outcome resound and identify within either of the original contexts, or is it now something new in its own entirety?
Our rendition of this was taking the skateboard representing freedom of movement and the Wheelchair representing restriction, them both being symbols of two subcultures we found ourselves in at the time. Us both being skateboarders working within the disabled community at the Wairau Valley special school. We used our real life situation to derive the project concept, the object itself becoming an embodiment of where we found ourselves.
Through exploring the middle ground between objects, we found the way in which we went about our process to be just as important as the final outcome. The process of exploration informing the creation of the physical hybrid. The outcome being meaningless without the process of discovery and exploration. The video stands as the end product, but would be delegitimised without the physical artefacts existence. The communication of the concept being lost without each other, making the creative process of constructing the artefact as important as this final outcome.
In turn, this has meant the concept has played an influential role in shaping the project. There being a large emphasis on the exploration of both objects and the middle ground between them. Our level of understanding behind the concept continuously developing through the exploratory process. What we have created is by no means a true representation of the middle ground between objects, but a means of expressing the concept.
