The installation invites the viewer to perform an act of affirmation and/or negation weighting time according to his perception of the relevance to affirm or deny in everyday life. If the visitor wants to participate, he/she is proposed to be recorded for 30 seconds performing simple nodding or denying head movements repeatedly.
The installation __YES__NO consists an area of interaction, where a computer captures and processes in video the visitor’s actions to be projected consequently. The projection shows a video generated in real-time from the recordings made in the area of interaction, composing a video mosaic in real time with different visitors.
This act involves a reflection on how to set the time in acts of affirming and denying according to your personal criteria. And here comes the questions that we can get to determine the time devoted to gesture to affirm or deny in this improvisation: Am I of those who tend to affirm or deny mostly? Do I think that affirming / denying has a clear relation to the positive / negative character, optimistic / pessimistic people? Or, do I think that affirming is to accept everything other people say while denying means saying NO to what I am asked unfairly? If denying generates conflicts when, how and to what extent it is considered that denying brings positive value?. Is it passive affirmation not very often a denial of your own thoughts, emotions, needs or desires?, Does affirmation imply a return to the simple, to the everyday, primary reality that allows a social and personal growth?
Finally, the recording of visitor will be mixed with that of other partakers to create a mosaic that will show how different or similar is this simple act. The possibility to observe ourselves in a process that engages us individually but also collectively can give us clues on mind opening, recognition and thinking. Do we keep the same patterns of behavior that other individuals? Being recorded means adopting conventions, positions , faces and common expressions?, Is there overall and global behavior? Global results of the total time people have been affirming or denying may be interpreted as the expression of a latent conflict, or simply that we adhere to a life where everyday life makes us likely to be men and women of good.
La instalación |__YES__NO| invita al espectador a realizar una performance con gestos de afirmar y/o negar con la cabeza, ponderado el tiempo de acuerdo a la relevancia que el acto de afirmar o negar tenga en su vida cotidiana.
Este sencillo gesto de afirmar/negar, conlleva una reflexión donde podemos plantearnos varias preguntas que determinen el tiempo que dedicamos : ¿Soy de los que afirman o de los que niegan mayoritariamente? ¿Creo que afirmar/negar esta en relación con el carácter positivo/negativo, o mejor dicho optimista/pesimista de las personas? ¿O bien, creo que afirmar es aceptar todo lo que te dicen y negar es decir no a lo que se te pide injustamente?. Si negar genera conflictos ¿Cuándo, cómo se considera que negar aporta valor positivo?. ¿Afirmar pasivamente no es muchas veces negar tus propios pensamientos, emociones, necesidades o deseos?. ¿O afirmar implica el retorno a lo sencillo, a lo de todos los días que nos permite sobrevivir pero también avanzar y evolucionar?
Si el visitante participa, será grabado durante 30 segundo realizando movimientos simples de afirmación y negación con la cabeza. Finalmente, esta grabación individual se mezclará con la interpretación de otros espectadores en un mosaico donde se puede comparar colectivamente cuan distinto o semejante a los demás se es.