Speculative Proposal
To extend my project, I want to make an installation ride in the amusement park at Six Flags, New Jersey. Through the medium of Op art, this ride will bring about a dizzying sensation in people. I decided to situate it in an amusement park, especially Six Flags because at Six flags each ride gets its own separate space of land that is big enough for the ride to exist.Therefore, it will be situated amongst the other rides but it will also have its own exclusive space in the park. This will be an exclusive ride where one person will go in the room at one time.The Op art-inspired pattern will be a black and white pattern that will emerge from a central point and move outwards to the ends of the panels. This digitally printed pattern will be projected on all the six-room walls. Since this a 21st century ride, the Op art will be pixelated just like how the panels in my small installation are made. The variety of the shades of the pixels causes a movement in the eye and adds to the dizzying effect along with the Op art pattern from Bridget Riley. I will be using the same pattern as the prototype installation as it really did bring about that dizzying effect. A dark tunnel will lead the people to this room. The room will be illuminated with lights on the corners. There will be a pedestal in the center of the room, where the person will stand, and this will rotate and move up and down.The person’s will be taken 7 ft up and his head will be into a square infinity mirror cube where there will be a same pattern as the walls. This box will be hanging from the ceiling.The cube will have mirror on all six sides and will have a hole for the head and the neck of the person to get in. This is inspired by the infinity mirror boxes of Yayoi Kusama but hanging it from the ceiling and elevating the person to the cube will be a new touch added to it. The walls will be stationary while the pedestal will be moving. The contrast of the movement and stillness will bring about the effect of dizziness. When someone gets dizzy, their perspective is changed as the way they look at things are different and there is a sense of motion in their sight.The politics of disorientation brings about an effect of making people looking at the world with a different perspective.The speed of the pedestal will be 17 seconds per spin to allow the viewer to look at the panels for a while before entering its head in the hanging cube. The radius of the circle will be about 24 inches. This ride will be more of an experience for the person’s sensation rather than a thriller attack from a roller coaster ride which in the same park. This will be much slower and the viewer will get to use his sense of sight to comprehend what is happening.The size of the tunnel will be 21 ft x 1.5 ft x 10 ft. The measurements of the room will be 17 ft x 8 ft x 20 ft. This will be one of the unique rides in the Six Flags amusement park as it will bring about a dizzying sensation through minimal movement and more of visual art.
