Breaking Apart of the Senses (2019) is an online/IRL art project that is the result of the Social Media Art Summer Course at Paris College of Arts. The human brain naturally associates certain pictures with a corresponding sound. Yet, what happens when you break up these senses? How do you feel when what you see doesn’t correspond with reality? The project takes place both online, exploiting YouTube mechanisms, and IRL at the Paris College of Art with an immersive audiovisual installation. The viewers are called to explore the streets of Paris à la flâneur.
Breaking Apart of the Senses features video and audio clips recorded around Paris. Close-ups of moving organic elements are juxtaposed with industrial sounds (for example, coffee machine sounds are paired with a video clip of flowing water). The zeitgeist of Paris is presented through an abstracted lens. The project is a dissemination of the natural details of sights and sounds. Our eyes and ears register the same image differently. The piece plays with the differences of said senses, letting the viewer experience an obstruction of the familiar, teasing the psyche with contradicting effects. What results is a discomforting and hypnotizing feeling.
Order and direction is randomized — no Arc de Triomphe or Tour Eiffel in mind — just the winding alleyways and natural ravines. Although, this journey is not as serene as it may seem, the soundscapes of industry and city paired avec said journey modifies experience entirely. When your earbuds die and you are lost among a sea of images, sounds may reveal an underbelly of experience.
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