Social Signs Exhibition
We had a great night at our mini exhibition, Social Signs, on Saturday Night. This is a little about our project taken from our website.
Do you know your neighbour?
What about that man with the walking stick in the shopping isle?
Or the lecturer in the pink top rushing from her car this morning?
Did you answer no to all of the above? That’s no surprise.
As society becomes more reliant on social media to communicate and interact we are slowly losing the true human social behaviour. “Hello, how are you?” has turned into likes and digital comments, while goodbyes are replaced with gtg. I don’t know about you but that makes us sad.
We are blue monkey installations and we are here to introduce social signs. For us Social Signs is our own personal interpretation of digital communication crossed with physical interaction. How and what you say? Well..
Social Signs is a group project that aims to connect people with people. We often walk, shop and drive with people who have challenging journeys, impacting stories, and insightful knowledge. Our project’s mission is to introduce these people of Townsville to Townsville. A project inspired by Brandon’s Humans of New York, Social Signs will take portraits and stories from people all around the city. These images will be transformed into artworks and presented in a one night event at Movimiento.
It was developed by 4 James Cook University students as an assessment piece for Creative Exchange.
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| The Social Signs Team |
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| Some of our walls |
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| They are posters of people we photographed. We then invited those people to the night to meet the other faces on the posters, and we all had a really good night meeting new people. |
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