anattā – 𑀅𑀦𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸

LED installation

Overview

Anattā is an experiment in which you are invited to be playful with your identity and that of someone else. Anattā (“non-self”) is a term from Buddhist texts and practices. This experiment for two people invites you to expand the space around the fixed self and to experience that it may not be quite as solid and stable as we often assume. How does it feel to be me? How does someone who is not me feel? How does it feel when both categories dissolve? Experiment suggestion:

Stand with another human on each side of the mirror
Position yourselves so that your faces overlap exactly
steel wire
Turn the dial to adjust the frequency of the light

Two-way mirror The glass is coated with, or has been encased within, a thin and almost transparent layer of metal (window film usually containing aluminium). The result is a mirrored surface that reflects some light and is penetrated by the rest. Light always passes equally in both directions. However, when one side is brightly lit and the other kept dark, the darker side becomes difficult to see from the brightly lit side because it is masked by the much brighter reflection of the lit side.

Half-transparent mirror
aluminium frame
3D printed parts
microcontroller & knob & led stripe

Gallery

Videos

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Moritz Wehrmann for inspiring this work with his installation Alter Ego