Floating Identities: Me, Her and Us, An Interactive Site-Specific Art Installation Based on Adler’s Inferiority Complex to Conclude the De-tachment and Reform of Modern Females

Floating Identities: Me, Her and Us, An Interactive Site-Specific Art Installation Based on Adler’s Inferiority Complex to Conclude the De-tachment and Reform of Modern Females

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Keywords: Alfred Adler, inferiority complex, inferiority and compensation, modern females.

According to Alfred Adler’s theory of “Inferiority complex”, all individuals were born with different levels of sense of inferiority. People are usually unsatisfied with where they stand so they try ways to make up for what they do not own, thus forming a chain of compensation. This concept is focus on exploring the variety of symptoms caused by the compensation mechanism in females. This project use common psychological conditions usually seen in females to portray different levels of self-awareness. Include the viewers by taking them through a journey of mental stages using interactive demonstration, so they can experience the difference in intensity during different stages, leaving the viewer’s options to interpret and imagine themselves in such stages which in turn offering them a chance to rebuild and reform their confidence. Through qualitative analysis, we conclude the three mental stages, which are “space”, “process” and “introspection”. After reviewing the relationship between the three stages, we then observe and construct the psychological stages of denial, rebuild, reform, and reconstruction of self-relationship. The conclusion and achievement obtained are hoped to have the value of feasibility for future reference