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An audio-visual experience
Headspace is an audio-visual motion graphic sharing qualitative responses from the Finding Our Strength survey.
The voices you hear are community members who volunteered as voice actors. Each person chose the survey responses they wished to record considering what responated with them.
Community members were involved throughout the entire process from recording to post-production and final editing. Editing was limited to sound quality clean up, and determing the sequence of the qualitative responses based on a narrative progression. All responses were left intact to preservee the themes from the survey. In other words, these are direct quotes from survey respondents.
We created immersive experiences:
We installed Headspace as a large flatscreen tv with headphones to engage wth the audio, while the visual elements played on loop. In another exhibit, we dedicated a listening room to Headspace. Guests coud sit on lounge chairs in the darkened room as Headspace was projected onto a large format screen, along with speakers.
HEADSPACE
Community Portraits
Monochromatic portraits were interspersed throughout the art-meets-research exhibition.
Members of the trans and gender diverse community signed up for portraits provided to them, pro bono. Portraits of our authentic selves are valuable and affirming.
An option was provided to consent for their photographs to be used in the Sharing Our Strength exhibition.
How do you cope?
A demonstrative accompanies the following panel to prompt guests to reflect on how they cope.
A board visually mapped out each of the coping activities from our survey as a grid. Each coping activity was represented by a peg and labeled. String was available for guests to wrap around the pegs – connecting their coping responses with string. Differently colored strings were available, each one corresponding to emotion (e.g., the purple string represents feeling sad, the yellow string represents feeling worried, the red string represents feeling angry, etc.). Over the course of the exhibit, an aggregated visualization represented all of the guests who participated in reflecting on how they cope.
Build a Gender Journey
A demonstrative accompanies the following panel for guests to interact with and reflect on the prompt What is gained? What is lost?
Each milestone is represented by a slider which could be moved horizontally to correspond with a given age. We included an age range that encompasses respondents’ age at the time of taking the survey (up to 70 years old).
What is gained? What is lost?
