SIREN

"Siren" is a wearable structure that explores and questions the "warning" role of the artist by turning him into a warning device.

 

-I wonder in the end if the role of the artist is to "warn" and if so what is he warning about, and who? The artist sees the world through their own particular prism. They are not just an observer, they are an interpreter and are engaged with the events/facts either by participating(the event being their own experience), or indirectly(mediated experience). Either way they gather all the elements of reality and translate them into symbols/materials/ images that speak directly to the spectator's subconscious. The artwork is the product of the artist's unique experience of the event, it guides the spectator to indulge in the event and to produce powerful emotions. These emotions are the element which renders the artwork into a warning, through an entirely spontaneous procedure that does not in any way force the experience from the spectator. However there comes a situation when the artist gets compromised with external expediences. Then the warning becomes deliberate, false, a forced, parasitic extension of the artist's action which discomforts , burdens them and impedes their expression. "Siren" is the embodiment of that situation. It is a device designed to hamper the wearer's(therefore the artist's) movement and gives a warning with the click of a switch. The "message" is repeated and "spoken" with a mechanical voice other than the artists.-