Eunoia II from Lisa Park on Vimeo.
The following post from Wired.com does a terrific job explaining the creative and technological impact of Lisa Park’s bold and brave performance installation, entitled Eunoia II, which uses neural feedback technology to physically manifest her emotions as ripples in pools of water. Park, who received her BFA in Fine Art at Art Center, uses her project to implicitly make the very compelling point that the spectrum of human emotion, from placid to roiling, is to be embraced and harnessed as the source of our creativity, vitality and individuality. Rather than building bridges over troubled water; Park’s work encourages us to splash around in those turbulent tides. In essence, Park’s evocative installation reveals the exquisite and fleeting beauty in a feeling, regardless of where it falls on the pleasure-pain scale.