When fishbone started to explain his practice he began it by showing us a picture of 2 pieces of art. Both pieces displayed a joint of ham but one had a bottle of wine next to it and the other didn't, he started to explain that the audience will all go for the one with the wine because it is more appealing! This was an introduction saying that we can control audiences reactions to art in different ways.
Doug Fishbone work on alot of performance work, he uses a very strange way to interact with his audience and that is through hypnosis!
His main aim when producing the artwork was to see if he could convince people using visual gestures.
Using the motion of hypnosis, he wanted to see if he could control peoples reactions instead of them being uncontrollable which is a natural thing for us to do. When he looked at the responses from the audiences he said it was very strange.
Once he did this experiment then he created a 2 screen installation, 1 of the screens was of the audience being filmed from the experiment and the other which was opposite was the actual film that was being watched (This means that there would be 2 audiences one on the screen and one viewing the installation piece).
He wanted to find the answer to this question, how do we perceive things?
He said something towards the end of the power point that was really interesting and that I could use for my practice, he said that most art is a juxtaposition, another words if you see something like a naked woman on a tractor, it doesn't mean that if you buy the tractor you'll get the naked woman!
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