Phantom is a body-focused, immersive artwork that forms part of the part-time, practice-based PhD entitled, 'Can measurement of audience response help evaluate whether an artwork conveys the artists intention?'
Phantom endeavours to elicit a potent, visceral and precise bodily response by directly targeting our universal, automatic and involuntary body systems that we use to make sense of our world. The specific intention is to elicit a feeling of bodily lightness through a sense of floating, swiftly followed by a feeling of bodily heaviness through a sense of pressure pushing down. A series of controlled Artwork Participation Sessions were conducted to evaluate whether Phantom conveyed this artistic intention.