DesignThings Bas Botermans' Graduation Working Log

12Apr/100

Provocation

Sorry for not posting my first ideas, but I think this is also one important part that was still missing. Inspiration that looks at provocation.

Bill Viola - Ocean without a shore.

This piece is about the contradictory meaning of the altar. They are in one hand a place to pray and worship the death and in the other hand the tomb of a dead person. This piece is setup in a very small chapel where 103" screens are mounted above the altars. It shows how thin the layer between life and death is by letting people in black and white (almost ghostlike) walk through a water curtain to get from the dead to the living (high resolution full colour image, very detailed). It should make people think about their own mortality. I also like the provocation of the technology that is implemented in the chapel's most sacred place, the altar.