Real-Doh Playroom (2017)
Interactive Installation
Flour, Water, Dough, 3D-printed artist toys, instructional signs
Real-Doh Playroom (2017) is an interactive installation that explores our sequential gestures with domestic objects to critique our everyday subjectivity and activity. The audience is invited to interact with the designed 3D-printed plastic toys, appropriated from everyday domestic objects into critical tools, as they wish with the real dough. Through imaginative play and language, it questions the unremarkable, immediate things we experience day to day– repetitions, habit-forming, routine, instructions, rules, the mundane, versus the extraordinary, and the tensions which come out of that.
Through the familiarity in the extrapolated elements of everyday language, the “manufactured toys” seek to bring visibility to the deeper meaning behind everyday objects and behaviour risks that could inscribe itself into the perpetuation of social order or political gestures with dialectical contradictions. “Fun for all ages”, the playroom taps on critical pedagogy and reconstructs everyday education toys into conceptual tools for contemplation and social interactivity. As reflexive preliminaries lay out the logic of stimulation, the playroom invites the audience to play with the conceptual toys and tools at the front of their consciousness as the stimulation plays out as a surprise.
Through the familiarity in the extrapolated elements of everyday language, the “manufactured toys” seek to bring visibility to the deeper meaning behind everyday objects and behaviour risks that could inscribe itself into the perpetuation of social order or political gestures with dialectical contradictions. “Fun for all ages”, the playroom taps on critical pedagogy and reconstructs everyday education toys into conceptual tools for contemplation and social interactivity. As reflexive preliminaries lay out the logic of stimulation, the playroom invites the audience to play with the conceptual toys and tools at the front of their consciousness as the stimulation plays out as a surprise.