Your Secret Here.

Your Secret Here is a commentary on the confidential nature of coded and encrypted communication and the growing concern for privacy and protecting our identities. This age of electronic information has created a fear of public exposure of private life, thus building distance, dishonesty and secrets amongst people. Your Secret Here urges the viewer to participate through writing or speaking their secrets in a confessional booth. A conflicting tension is created by both the fear and the desire of being exposed. With the popular use of online social networking venues, such as Facebook, MySpace and Blogspot, private lives are willingly exposed. As the viewer participates, this tension is addressed and exploited. The spoken secrets will be aurally shredded through audio manipulation. The written secrets can either be posted on the gallery wall, or shredded and dispersed. We urge the viewers to participate in a cathartic ritual with their shredded secrets. The viewers are invited to walk around the space, dispersing their secrets along with others. As the carefully arranged floor design is eventually swept away, so are the secrets.

Here are some photos of the floor in progess…

Adam Butler took this last photo of the floor queens.

Photos from the Installation: