In collaborate with fellow Creative Industries student Stan Pol, we sought out to critcally explore the student experience in an age of disordered attention.

Concurrent crises of finance and housing, global disasters, human atrocity, and the looming climate crisis weigh down on students more than ever-- we found intrigue in cataloging these experiences but also discovering how students manufacture meaning to their lives, synthesizing their experiences of global citizen and student into one identity.

Our installation, featuring a soundscape composed by Stan alongside orginal visuals and an endurance performance undertaken by myself, presented a unique paradigm by which to present our research, while also further conducting it. Modeled after a classroom, often misattributed as a space independent from reality, we brough the outside world in and internal thoughts out. Attendees were then brought into a space where they cannot ignore this reality.

Overwhelmed by audiovisual stimuli we aimed to put our attendees into an almost anti-meditative state, whereupon they can glean insights about themselves and connection to academia and the world around them. We are interested in what people see in themselves whilst in our space and are actively collecting feedback from attendees to track the project's progress.

The performance too provided a subject for the audience to perceive and experience. The audience, alongside the performer, endures 3 hours non-stop of reading aloud prior academic work, facing the awkwardness, incorrectness, and perhaps meaninglessness of works produced. However, the audience is in a position of power or hopeful agency. They have the chance to leave, effectively stopping the cycle of despair, symbolically committing to hope and change.