Final Major Project

Control/ Lack of Control

Can anything ever reach a complete state of control?

Control is an act of resistance, dominance and command over a situation, object or person. Control (or lack of it) is present in everyday life and is seen to change the outcome of a situation or place which interests me.



I wanted to look at how control and lack of it work together in situations. I decided to use for this piece a shredder, everything going in is very controlled but the outcome is uncontrolled.

Using a shredder means that anything I was to shred would give that documentation value as typically a person would only shred something of value. So to shred plain untouched paper questions what the viewer finds important enough to shred.

My final piece was an 8ft wooden frame that I had built with a shredder and a role of paper at the top of it. The shredder was on a timer of 1 minute on 9 minutes off. The shredder shreds continuously for one minute. This piece not only shows the idea of control but also asks the question of what the viewer finds important.