Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf

FOCUS

Participants in the Focus installation by Christoph Beck attempt to focus their attention on a mantra in front of them. When they allow themselves to be distracted, they transform the distraction into the focus. If they ignore the distractions this suggests that their internal thinking processes were “louder” than the external impulses.
The installation aims at making it clear that the way we interact with ourselves and the external world leaves traces within us. It links up with the internal processes of the autonomous nervous system in order to show that participants direct their own well-being by means of conscious processing of distractions. 

FOCUS by Christoph Beck was an exam project for Visual Music major at the Institute for Music and Media of the Robert Schumann School of Music and Media. The work was supervised by Prof. Dr. Heike Sperling and Marcus Schmickler.