My work is to explore the stressful and
fickle modern life and the suppression of emotion in the urban life. The way of
expression is to make the ideas visible to the public, such as installation and
interactive design in a space.
I’m interested in the urbanities’
suppressed and concealed emotion. It is acknowledged that in the contemporary
society, everything are developed very fast, and there are a lot of pressures
in the city life, such as people ‘s work, study and living statement. In the
surface of their life, people have their own schedule for work or study, they
face challenge, salve problem and make social contact. However, from the inside
of heart, the stress makes them feel lonely, unhappy, discouraged or passive.
When I start the project, I tried to
express the idea from the angel of person, but now my angel has been a little
bit changed. I want to create an atmosphere in a specific space and to
encourage viewers’ comments. That’s a kind of visual communication and
participation.
There are some models, which I have already
showed in the unit1. I tried different materials to create visual effects in a
model of space. But the problem is the infeasibility. They are really hard to
realize in a large real space.
So after that, I extended the ideas, to do an
installation. Here the large-scale drawing could be realized by working with
the fact that it is on a paper roll. I can invent people come to the inside and
experience the effect. But the effect is not as powerful as which I want to
have.
Through a lot of research about the
installation and space work from related artists’ works, I tried to think the
specific emotions of urban people. And I find all my ideas is my own thinking
and feeling, not the attitude or thinking from the specific people who living
in London around us. As a foreigner, I cannot understand British people’s
thinking because of the different culture and society. So I did interviews and
try to know the area specifically. And I want to know how people think about
their life in a large city and what’s the different between china and here.
Through the interviews, I got a lot of information from different people who
working here or come from other countries. Most of them feel stressful, lonely,
unhappy or busy to their work or study. And some people feel the pressure must
be happened with the rapid development of society, but we need to face the
stress and make our psychology to be better. I like the to do the interviews
and will keep doing this. I will try to get more and more ideas by different
specific questions.
This is a small video, I just test the
visual effect to create a illusion or disorientation of an urban life, but here
the problem is the drawing of the buildings are not suitable to express my
idea, because it is not real city life.
So after that, I took photos around the
city, and choose modern buildings as the element. Here I edit a small video and
projected it to the colourful papers to create a fickle word. I am thinking
about the way of expression, it could be a installation like the video showed,
I can use strings to hang the tier upon tier of colour papers which like the
tier upon tier of buildings in the city. Another way is to show the video on
the each of the walls and floor in a real space. It is also a way to make a
disorientation of the urban life.
Here I tested the effect by using the
projector in the private area. I projected the image in the place which I am
living. For urbanities, the home is close and private and make people relaxed,
but I move the stressful situation to their private space to create the
stressful and oppressive atmosphere.
