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How are you feeling? This experimental installation invites you to choose a colour based on how you feel right now. Press a button and become part of an evolving communal light sculpture.
Artist Tiffany Singh believes engaging with the arts can improve physical and mental health. She intends Total internal reflection to be an expression of our collective wellbeing through colour.
A maximum of 30 people can be in the room at once.
Each colour selected for Total internal reflection is captured in real time – a record of how visitors are collectively shaping the artwork. This data is available in open source for creative reuse.
Visitors on the Toi Art Sensory Tour in Tiffany Singh’s Total internal reflection, 2018. Photo by Jo Moore. Te Papa
A girl in Tiffany Singh’s Total internal reflection, 2018. Photo by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Participants of Toi Art Art & Wellbeing weekend in Tiffany Singh’s Total internal reflection, 2018. Photo by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Kate Whitley. Te Papa
Photograph by Maarten Holl. Te Papa
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