Exhibition theme: 16 personalities (MBTI test)
Developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother Katherine Briggs, the MBTI is a very popular personality test. Many people consider the MBTI to be an invaluable tool to help them understand their own behaviour as well as the behaviour of others, and is a common psychological concept (Farmer, 2018).
Medium:
Game
“The contribution of games as an artistic medium and how art subverts the power hierarchy of reproduction. Also, through the communicative potential of games and the licence to imagine art, exploring how the combination of the two offers alternative ways of seeing the world”(García, 2019).
Installation Art
“Art is a special kind of object that can be better understood when the audience is recognised or taken seriously, just when we come into face-to-face contact with others. This requires us to question preconceptions, to endeavour to offer the benefit of the doubt and to acquire an attitude of openness. In this way, art can be seen as a sort of exchange between different selves, contributing to the construction of self-knowledge.”
“In terms of the psychology underlying postmodernism and contemporary art, contemporary artwork encourages the perception of the self and the sense of proprioception (a pre-reflective ‘thin’ sense of self), while experimenting with possible worlds and selves and engaging with a rich narrative self-concept. The notion of self expressed in contemporary artworks is a desire for an irreducible “plurality” of experiences, avoiding essentialising debates and embracing the notion of “self”. Each audience has their own understanding of the artwork, and seeks themselves in works of equal personalities” (Nader and Moosa, 2012).
References:
Farmer, A. (2018) Leading like an educator: How MBTI profiles vary from the norm. Journal of global education and research (Print). [Online] 2 (1), 127–134.
García Martínez, A. (2020) Games as an Art Medium: Critical Art Game Exhibitions in the Twenty-first Century. The international journal of new media, technology and the arts. [Online] 15 (1), 21–39.
Nader, K. and Moosa, J. (2012). The Relationship between Art and Psychology. Life Science and Biomedicine, 2(4), pp.129–133.
