https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xPHY52kWFdav9arWQz-4Qvpe1yffx0t4/view?usp=sharing

Description

The project investigates the firm position held by a certain group of Chinese people during the COVID-19 spreading period and intended to show people’s attitudes toward artifacts.

The project has two parts: Weibo and a photo journal. The Weibo, also named MicroBlog, is one of the most common social media sharing platforms in China, the artifact was published on Weibo which shows the firm position held by some Chinese people during the outbreak of coronavirus through the release of a Chinese citizen's microblog in the outbreak. The publisher is one of the main supporters and distributors of the conspiracy theory of coronavirus; The second artifact is a photo journal of an escaped convict who traveled from Hunan to Henan during the outbreak of coronavirus after ransacking a gold store. The convict is extremely cautious and has a high anti-detection capability. After burying the gold in the countryside of Henan province, the convict returned to Hunan through the highway on bicycles, he was armed to the teeth.

By combining the two artifacts together, the project was intended to show how wrath and greed were revealed during the COVID-19 spreading period. The boundaries between the fictional and the real are blurred.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Make Believe

Art,Narrative/Storytelling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_GSHbC7A8E

Description

The project intended to show a leaping dream process, and the visitors could design their dreams by clicking the “dreamer’s words” to get into their own special dreams. The project was inspired by The Interpretation of Dreams, written by Sigmund Freud, who groundbreaking showed that how elements appear in one’s dream could influence the dreaming process.

As different elements may have the special meaning referred to as a dream dictionary, different words would create special atmospheres for the visitors. By arranging the order of the words, the visitors could enter a “dream” designed by oneself and be encouraged to use the concept “montage”, to help them leaping from one word to another. Every word was connected to a video or audio and was reorganized by the visitors when they click on them.

To make the project more immersive, the VR technique was required in the future for further development.

IMA/IMB Shanghai

Exhibition:Next

Art,Music