An interesting idea about experiencing someone's personal space, titled "Helmet Piece" by Maya Suess. It appeared in NYC last year in the Conflux exhibition. Project description from the event website:"Helmet Piece is an interactive embodied installation. The work is made up of a group of performers outfitted with spherical helmets. The helmets are solid and closed all around the performer’s head except for the headset of a stethoscope protruding from the front. Audience members wear the headsets like headphones and listen to a composition of subtle internal sounds made by the performers. By locating Helmet Piece in a pedestrian environment, it transposes the human body’s interior soundscape onto the city’s urban freneticism, re-framing the metropolis through the sonic textures of our organs."
Perhaps it could be interesting to explore this idea of an instrument for creating personal space that can be changed and manipulated to mediate one's surrounding environment, much like a car or a building? Senses of hearing, seeing, and aural perception could be turned on or off depending on the user's desires for personal space.
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