HEROIC SIMULATOR
Wendy Gaze
Graduation Project 2013
Now, you are the hero! Heroic Simulator is a series of nine interactive devices allowing recreating the experience of space as lived by cinema heroes, including iconic scenes of ‘flying’ from Titanic, bullet time from The Matrix and the rose petals in American Beauty. Each simulator is accompanied by a manual and acting script for staging and the role that the user must play. Heroic Simulator #1 I’m Flying allows the user to imagine experiencing the famous scene from James Cameron's Titanic, ascending a high structure that leans you forward with outstretched arms. The fun and humour of projecting yourself into an iconic scene that is and crucially isn’t reproduced by the mechanical device and everyday setting symbolically enacts gestures of everyday heroism emerging in real life.
Heroic Simulator —
001 I’m Flying
002 Rainy
003 Roberto, mio palmo!
004 Il bueno
005 Bullet time
006 Punching time
007 Eros y thanatos
008 Day dream
009 Malkovich
Materials:
A2 posters
Illustrated manuals (x9)
Steel
Fan (x3)
Heroic Simulator, 001 I’m Flying:
(H) 3500 x (W) 600 x (L) 750 mm
Photography:
© HEAD — Genève / Raphaëlle Müller
Video:
© Wendy Gaze
Awards:
2013 — Nominee Award of Excellence Hans Wilsdorf Foundation
2014 — LUX* Festival, Bains des Paquis, Genève
Publications:
raphaellemueller.com/Heroic-Simulator
2014/2015 — Cover of Admission booklet, HEAD Genève
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