Liminality: In-Between Worlds
Project details
- Year
- 2024
- Programme
- Bachelor – Spatial Design
- Practices
- Honours Programme
- Minor
- Visual Culture
When one stands in the doorway in-between two rooms, one is in both rooms, but also in none of them; one is liminal.
I connect this paradoxical existence to my experience growing up moving around with a multi-cultural family. I was born to my Argentinean mother and German father, and by the time I turned 20, I had lived in four countries. While I have many place toc all home, this has left me with a deep sense of non-belonging.
My experience is far from unique. In an increasingly globalized world, more and more people find new homes across borders. However, it is difficult to share this experience to someone who has never had to overcome this feat. The feeling of not belonging to your host country, but also returning home to find you no longer belong there either.
This is why I created a multi-media installation which captures this liminal experience. Using footage I filmed on trips back to Germany and Argentina, I overlaid the two content streams to create a conflicting and distorted image.
Each content stream is connected to a separate microphone. When a microphone picks up audio peaks, it switches to another random video file. In this liminal experience between the physical and digital world, the installation rewards silent contemplation to properly view the footage. Just how the only way to understand another person’s experience is to listen.
The footage is projected on a large S-shaped curtain sustained by a wooden structure with metal joints. The shape creates two distinct spaces, with each microphone placed in a separate space. In this way, the duality of liminality is encapsulated, with the liminal content being projected on the fabric threshold in-between.
