Influenced by Bruce Nauman's work 'The Green-Light Corridor'

Bruce Nauman's work - 'The Greenlight-Corridor 1970'

Basically the idea of this work came from ‘Bruce Nauman’ work, ‘The Green-Light Corrido, 1970, (above). Actually his work combined dance and performance art, testing the limits of his own body and inviting the viewer to do the same thing into his work.

He construct two free standing walls, each eight feet high and twenty feet long with both ends of the corridor open as to create a close passageway between two free standing wall till the entire length. He used the altering lighting conditions or the configuration of his installation space as to compel and disorienting his audience. He invites the audience to experience our individual physical reaction through a narrow structure.

In the book of ‘Bruce Nauman’ (Benezra, N., Nalbreich, K. & Simon, J., 1994), It states that he used both subjects, narrowing the width and exaggerated length of the corridor, and also the eerie light cast from green neon glow light as to create the experience of uncomfortable or claustrophobic in a sense of his work.

Bruce nauman noted that some people find the green colour relaxing, while in other (including him) it also creates a tense feeling such feeling wanted to finish the journey especially when the length of the wall really far and suddenly stuck in the middle of the installation. However from this material, the length and the height of the walls, it can create people suffer or evoke uncomfortable experience just by creating small gap of corridor space.  

This experimentation photograph, creating the alienation scene using different kind of lights. Unfortunately the light could not stay there longer because the neon bulb that I used easily getting hot. I afraid it will cause the fire hazard in that space.

The good thing about this, is that playing with the colour can create something emotion which obiviously colour does create emotion or showing the sign of feeling. But with this installation, with the colour involved, it makes the space more sort of like outer space (alien invading) but somehow with the red light, it kind of scary because it show the fear of something getting murder or alert. I remember the horror movie called ‘The Shutter’ where he met the scary ghost inside the photography darkroom only with the little red light appeared. But overall, with these colour, It represent something especially when you think of something. It just pop up with imaginary scene such as Alien, outer space, murder or anywhere. It sort of like detacting your sense or thoughts with colours. Perhaps red could be the porn scene or something.