Project 1 : Collection

Collection and Recreation

(03/09/19--05/09/19)

In the beginning.

We watched the works of some artists, how they were collected and what they collected.

After listening to the artist's work in the lecture.I realize, everything can be collected, not just something that you can see or touch.

I started thinking, maybe not collecting visual elements (which means that the collection itself is visible), but instead collecting the perspective. For example, looking up or looking down. The difference in perspective is also indisputably with the concept of equality and inequality. How to collect people's perspectives and how to create a medium to collect people's perspectives again is the starting point of my entire work.

And, I think I am trying to break through the range that can be collected and not collected.

Medium：Interactive Installation

Material: Glass, Candies, Loudspeaker Box, Rock, Dish, Paper

I collected something touch me in three consciousness. And I use it to build a field to the collection again.

The Auditory sense, I collection the sound of wind in London.

The Taste sense, I collection the Candies which is very hard to eat

The Visual sense, I collection the transparent glass door. The audience is through the glass\ very low vision

The audience is an essential element for this work. The audience can know through the tips on the floor that they can participate in this art project. Sitting under the glass door ( transition of perspective ), eating this Candies, The sound of the wind from the street is played.

I have constructed through the combination of three senses the distance and estrangement I face in this new environment, between myself and the unfamiliar environment, between me and the unfamiliar people. Though the transparent door, I could see anyone passing by, though it was clear but we don’t know about each other. The transparent glass door is a kind of protection, but also a real barrier is like the transparent glass door, but the door means that it can be opened, although I have to work hard to break it ( the hard stone in front is very heavy). The audience can know that they must eat the candies I provided when they participate in this project. This candy is not sweet and hard. It is very difficult to speak in the process of eating it. It simulates language barriers and communication barriers. (English is a second language to me ). The sound of the wind is the hallmark of this new environment (London). It also an abstract noise that blocks our hearing ( just like language barriers ). Sometimes we don’t fully understand the thoughts of others.

I give the audience the right to participate in the work because I believe that everyone experience is different experiences, just as everyone’s pain is different and the obstacles they want to break are different. That’s why I want to build a field where people can experience it. IMG_9746.jpg.2

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What impressed me was that a classmate said after watching my work, "This candy looks very difficult to eat, so maybe this is why no one wants to try to participate in this work." （difficult to eat is part of my work.) A girl (classmate) responded, "But just as you don't want to try this candy, she is eating this candy in real life (referring to me)." This really touch me. I am very happy that someone can really experience my pain and obstacles through my work. (This is exactly what I put in my work)

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