Portfolio of Ruishan Ge

“LOVE DEALER”

View The Video：https://youtu.be/EiRH1fXhvFg

Installation 700x450x750（mm）

2150x600x1700（mm）

2021

Information：

This is an individual project. The artist has constructed a heterotopia ‘love vendor’, a space that flows in the urban space, through the perspective of a love vendor and a toilet bow ‘Shrek’, allowing different social classes to ask and answer questions about love in this space, reflecting on the voices of the marginalized and exploring the needs of different classes.

An inter-temporal interaction between people from two cities, three regions and an age range of 60 years.

Research Background

1.Urban village toilet

The outbreak of the Covid19 in the urban village of Beijing demonstrated the reality of the 'Heterotopia' ：the urban village toilet door panels. On the toilet door panels, urban village groups are able to leave message and escape from the dominant power mechanisms and discursive order, which allows them to express and stretch their own discourse to a certain extent.The toilet message boards are in fact spatial fracture zones formed in the space constructed by the grand narrative of mainstream society, a social practice of the urban village community.

2.Graffiti left on the panels of toilet doors

Contents left by students &residents of urban villages

Through field research of public toilets in different social spaces, more than 90% of the toilets had love-related messages, but the connotations were different!students most like to leave the names of their lovers "In urban village the most common messages were advertisements for STD treatment.

After comparing the differences in message between the two groups#the idea of creating a  fluid space to bring students in a 'utopia' into interaction with the urban village community was born.

Pre-field research

3.Contextual Research

• Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias

4.Visual Research

• Purity and Danger

The concept of ‘Heterotopia’ is of medical origin and refers to the heterotopia of tissues or organs. Michel Foucault later borrowed the concept in his lecture 'Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias' and elaborated on it in a philosophical sense.

• Recombinant Urbanism

According to David Graham

Shane, heterogeneous spaces are special territories with polycentric structures, internally capable of microcosmically reflecting the general organization of the contextual system, but with opposing norms.

In her book Clean and Dangerous, the British anthropologist Mary Douglas states:- ‘Where there is filth there must exist a system. Defilement is a by-product of the ordering and classification of systems of things, for the process of ordering is the process of discarding improper elements’.

• Différence et répétition

Gilles Deleuze argued that the problem of the production of difference has more to do with the dissipation of the territoriality of culture brought about by the expansion of the logic of capital. For in the new cosmopolitan cultural space, the influence of geographical boundaries on culture has gradually weakened.

• The World，2004，Zhangke Jia

In the movie, the use of commercial culture embodies the degradation of a desperate population and a culture of sexual indulgence In this culture, it seems that everything can be bought and sold.

• Toilet paper poem

Medium: toilet paper, print

Interaction: tugging, reading

• Tobias Rehberger, ‘Pee，Tea’, 2019

• Maurizio Cattelan，’America’,2016

• Piero Manzoni, ‘Artist’s Shit’,1961

1.Brainstorm

2.Concept

The mobile installation focuses on the expression of love between different classes of people in urban spaces.I named the main part of the installation SHREK, because it holds out the hope of a utopian version of love. The class barriers were turned into a transparent message board in this mobile space.Through me and the installa tion’s social intervention,  the young group in the "utopia" will be allowed to have a dialogue with the urban village group that built the real heterogeneous space.

1.The construction of the space： mobility and audience experience ——— using a vending cart to transform the toilet space;

2.The creation of the atmosphere of the space：not only allow the audience to experience intuitively, but also increase the visual impact ——— recycling a broken toilet bowl in the village for renovation;

3.Space's message function：a message board.

3.Source of Shrek

4.Source of vending car

Creative process

Main materials of Shrek vending car

• Styrofoam

• Spray painting

• Emulsion paint

• Gypsum

• Acrylic light panels

03 Creative process

Main place to leave message about love

Sit on the toilet bowl to write or draw

I sit here as a love dealer

After fieldwork, three locations were selected based on the different population flows and characteristics :

1.The entrance of 1905 Cultural and Creative Park

2.The night market square of Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park

3.The streets of the urban village

Tricycle as base part to allow the installation to be moved around the city

Messages can also be left on the body of the car

This three locations have a wide age range and social classes.

【30+ age married group】

This time love dealer collected 67 messages about love (including online live messages), with the youngest audience being 10 years old and the oldest being 63 years old.

I hope someone is happy because of me

I wish that the world will be peaceful A wise man does not fall in love

Hope to love each other forever

Social Practice - Offline 2 2021.07.05//night market square of Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park

【young people aged 18-25】

39 messages about love were collected (including messages on the online platform). Most of the people who participated in the interaction were young people aged 18-25 and took the initiative to sit on the toilet bowl to leave messages.

Don't fall back on love

May you have happiness on earth, my friend

I hope all my sons will be happy

All the scum in the world will be dead

2021.07.19//some streets of the urban village

I rode my tricycle through the streets of the urban village looking for a random audience. After riding for about 2km, I ended up collecting only 2 messages about love. Many illegal structures were built here.Because of these illegal structures, I encountered a callout during the filming.

【 migrant workers aged 40+】

White haired couple Eternal love

The wind decides to leave, how can the clouds stay

During the offline show, I simultaneously presented and collected messages on various online platforms. The first offline show was simulcast live on the platform, recording online messages from seven viewers in three cities. In the other two platforms, graphic messages and event previews were published, and 17 messages about love were collected. The age of the online audience was 15-25 years old, with the majority being female.

collected. It is easy to nd that for the young group in Utopia, love is more of a spiritual companionship; while for the group in the lower class society, most of them are too shy to express their voice about love in front of the public，but they will leave a trail of catharsis in the confined space of a public toilet.This has stimulates my passion for studying the influence of spatial attributes on the expression of the needs of different groups of people.

Love is finally reduced to

“BIG APPETITE”

View The Video：https://youtu.be/qTvxUsTJ0V0

Installation

Circuit Design\Touch Designer\Stage screen\ PVC ball\Foam

300x300x300(cm)

1000x1000(cm)

2021 Information

This is an individual project.There is a category of big appetite mukbang who chase benefits to satisfy the audience's ugly psychology by overeating. The viewer hiding behind the screen is the main catalyst in this cycle of concerned-overeatingvomiting. The installation seeks to express the unhealthy cycle of capital behind the phenomenon of big appetite mukbang, and to warn viewers that although they enjoy anonymity behind the screen, they should also have a sense of responsibility in the online community society.

1.Northeast China Mukbang

2.Stereotypes of the Northeast Eat broadcast

My hometown is in Northeast China, so I have always been very interested in northeast regional cultural topics. When I view short video social media platforms , I often meet Northeastern big appetite mukbang, which often involve eating giant pig's feet, raw seafood, etc. The comment section is broadly divided into three attitudes.

1. So disgusting, so corny, why are there so many people watching?

2. I'm so hungry at night, watching them eat is so enjoyable.

3. Northeasterners are like this, they eat a lot and are not sophisticated.

But in reality, the Big Appetite mukbang did not originate in Northeast China, it was just an added curiosity to the stereotype of northeasterners, so I conducted an in-depth research on the big appetite mukbang.

Screenshot of eating broadcast in Youtube

YouTube commentary on the Northeast Eat broadcast

3.Mukbang&Vomiting

It is not excluded that a very small number of broadcasters do have much bigger stomachs than the average person, but most of the "Big appetite" are trying to deceive the viewers and gain attention by inducing vomiting, tampering with the food containers and filming techniques. There's an ugly mentality that loves to watch the big appetite mukbang.The psychology of the ugly is to achieve a kind of mental stimulation and psychological satisfaction.It is actually a subtle psychological behavior.In the process of ugly, the individual generates feelings of amazement, fear, pity or disgust, and these feelings are cathartically released from the psychological act of "ugliness", behind which are some self-satisfaction about privacy, dreams, injustice, voyeurism, criticism and even vomiting.

4.Interviews

5.Cyber nihilism&Cyborg

Q1: Do you watch mukbangs and what are your impressions of them?

A: Never watch it, it's annoying

B: Love to watch them, very stress relieving, watch them when I'm on a diet

C: Prefer to watch an ASMR mukbang

Q2: Do you vomit after overeating??

A: Hurt myself ,Waste of food ,Shameless

B: I've hyperventilated before when I was on a diet, no matter what I ate it was easy to throw up, no anxiety

C: I've seen big appetites vomit and even corrode their teeth

To a certain extent, we are all moving towards Cybermen, sitting behind our phones fused together by abstract cyber systems and codes. The lack of a realistic landscape leading to a fading sense of responsibility for the viewer, at the same time, the anonymity of individual viewers in a group makes it easier for viewers to seek bottomless sensual stimulation in the virtual world.

On the surface, the Big Appetite seems to be nothing more than an entertainment and spiritual carnival. Once a widespread impact is created, this phenomenon essentially fuels the "flow theory", where our boundaries are constantly broken, aesthetic abilities are lost and the landscape society is alienated.

A：man；56 B：woman；23 C：woman；21

6.Contextual Research

7.Visual Research

• Im Schwarm： Ansichten des Digitalen

Byung-Chul Han believes that Digital information exchange and online social platforms have taken over our lives. Digital lives have effectively led to the collapse of communities, public spaces and the slow erosion of the possibility of political action, undermining meaningful political agendas. The digital media is making the real other disappear into thin air.

• Here Comes Everybody

Clay Scheckey stressed the importance of using the Internet to build communities. It is difficult to predict precisely how far the power of community in a networked society will reach when people are given the tools to act together and break through the limits of traditional organization.

• A Cyborg Manifesto

Donna J. Haraway’s concept is the rejection of strict boundaries, especially separate ‘man’ from ‘machine’.The boundaries between humans and animals, between animals-humans (organisms) and machines have collapsed. Evolution has blurred the boundaries between humans and animals.

• Eating a Hamburger，Andy Warhol，1982 • Air Visible，Jinjin

•  Ugly: The Aesthetics of Everything

Stephen Bayley believes that the popularity of "ugly culture" is just a vulgarized entertainment phenomenon that caters to the trend of ugly and the psychology of universal entertainment, but the social harm it brings cannot be underestimated.

• The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

Gustave Le Bon points out that when the individual is an isolated individual, he has his own distinctive individual characteristics, while when the person is integrated into a group, all his individuality is overwhelmed by the group.

• Rise of the Machines

Thomas Rid explores the implications of handing control over to machines.Can machines finally liberate humans from dirty, repetitive labour? Can they free human from maddening traffic jams and make our work, life and play more social and connected, but at the same time safer and more secure?

• Taxidermia， György Pálfi，2006

The second part of the film is about eating, turning people into gulping machines, eating in the shortest possible time what dozens or even hundreds of people can't finish, and then spitting it out.

02 Prototype

1.Brainstorm

2.Installation site

Input

1.A button to simulate the act of liking

2.A camera capturing the audience

Processing

1.Touch Designer

2.Circuit control

Output

After brainstorming, the main representation of the installation was decided: the use of a mannequin to represent the Big Appetite, the abstract representation of vomiting with jets of bubbles, and the need for this installation to integrate and interact the audience with the eating broadcast images.

1.A light that simulate the heart of a big appetite

2.A balloon simulating the belly；Blower

3.A large screen for playing composite videos

4.A foam cannon to simulate vomiting behavior

3.Interaction flow chart

(1) Audience presses button（audience like）

(2) Camera captures

(3) Computer generates images

(4) Screen plays video（mukbang）

(5) Heart bulb lights up + blower runs（eat）

(6) Balloon gets biggest

(7) Foam cannon runs emitting foam（vomit）

(8) The balloon deflated

Combining eating broadcast footage with real-time audience capture.

blower

5.Circuit design

Signal Receiver

Signal Transmitter

6.Material testing

（1）Body&Light （2）Pipes&Machine

7.Exhibition Location

Through the parallel circuit, the simultaneous control of the heart-shaped light and the blower through the wireless button is achieved.When the balloon reaches its maximum value after the blower has run, the balloon is connected to the foam cannon to start working.

（3）Bubbles

Giant balloon and a semi-mechanical human form in the stage resembles the Big Appetite. The stage interaction mimics the internet's recommended video mechanism, forcing the content to "break in" to the eye. The large screen is used to maintain the image of the Big Appetite as a 'performer', while the realtime capturing of the audience is combined with the eating video.

The stage of Hongmei cultural park

“BIG APPETITE”

In front of the camera, countless eyes are fixed on him, and they will encourage him to eat and chew like crazy for profit ; Behind the screen, however, no one cares what he will spit out.

“Sea View Experience Space”

View The Website：https://rheage.github.io/

View The Video：

1.https://youtu.be/o5nP9qUVPa0

2.https://youtu.be/IGQ3n6xy3rI

VR installation\Experimental video\Website

2x2x2（m）\2’09’’\1’17’’

VR\Blender\Python\Wind turbines\Fans\Plastic sofa\Conch

Information

This is an individual project.This VR installation and experimental video work focuses on two very different groups of property consumers: graduates looking for low-cost properties, who are often duped by various pseudo-technology product campaigns, and meta-universe investors who pay big bucks for virtual properties full of new technology. When advertisements for these two groups of consumers appear on online platforms at the same time, it creates an extremely absurd atmosphere, so I wanted to present this absurdity through a series of pseudo-technology advertisements that boast of coaxing consumers into buying products.

Research Background

1.For low budget renters：false advertising of substandard properties

As we approach graduation, my classmates and I are faced with the challenge of renting a room. Particularly in first-tier cities, issues such as whether the room information is true and the inability to see the rooms on site due to the Covid19 make college graduates even more worried about renting a room. This is when some sublet low-cost rooms appear in various forms to attract attention, but they are often full of rental traps: for example, the furniture is substandard but seems good, the actual room size differs greatly from that in the VR virtual viewing mode, and so on.

2.Conceptual confusion and fake VR viewing

VR viewing was first designed to be shown through VR glasses viewing equipment, the biggest problem with this is that the cost is too high. At first the introduction of VR model homes was considered a highlight, but at a later stage VR is no longer new and such applications are currently unsustainable, not to mention the use of bulk VR viewing on second homes. So the essence of the so-called VR viewing on the market is actually an 3D model, because It might be more attractive to call it VR viewing.

A 3d model of a house in VR viewing mode on a rental website

It's easy to overlook furniture details and problems with VR viewings

Common scam: using photos of the last tenant and low price to cheat the rent, finally you will find unfurnished and poor surroundings after moving in.

3.For

the high-income investment group: a metaverse property

The metaverse property, which enters the room through VR equipment.A metaverse refers to a web-connected 3D virtual space where users can enter virtual worlds through devices and have various immersive experiences within them. Users communicate with other users through their digital avatars, explore new spaces and create new content.The famous Honnverse platform is reported to be releasing virtual houses, with different types and scarcity levels depending on the terrain of Planet P. Currently, some of the Rainbow Universe's "scarce properties" are being speculated on some second-hand trading platforms.

4.Access to metaverse properties through VR devices

A metaverse property refers to a web-connected 3D virtual space where users can enter through VR devices and have various immersive experiences within them. Users communicate with other users through their digital avatars.

a website saling metaverse property

5.In conclusion

When ads for these two groups of consumers appear in adjacent spots on the platform at the same time it creates an extremely absurd atmosphere: an ad for a low-cost deceptive rental property at a sub-standard price and an ad for a futuristic and technological metaverse property investment. I wanted to capture this sense of absurdity for a creation.

6.Contextual research

• The Future is Now

Roy Ascott believes that with digital technology, the ‘five senses’ (sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste) and the six other senses proposed by neuroscience (pain, balance, proprioception, kinesthesia, time and temperature) will become a more composite and interwoven sensation.

• La Société du Spectacle

Guy-Ernest Debord argued that the landscape society is the imagery and images formed in the process of people's life and consumption, a fragmented view from all aspects of life, or a series of social life intentions, a combination of images, a combination of images, a huge accumulation of life itself.

• La société de consommation

Jean Baudrillard provides an exhaustive and insightful dissection of Western society, around the centre of consumption, revealing how large technological ruling groups give rise to an unquenchable desire to consume and, on this basis, redefine the various classes within class society.

• Being Digital

Nicholas Negroponte charts the impact of digital technology on our lives, work, education and entertainment. What was once called 'mass' media is evolving into personalized two-way communication. Instead of information being 'pushed' to consumers, people or their digital handymen will 'pick up' the information they need and participate in creating it.

7.Visual research

• Inside-Outside

Thierry Mandon

‘By moving ordinary scenes into an anachronistic time and space, the everyday act becomes an absurd yet poetic parody. The character confronts his own humanity, the tragedy of his own existence, his own limitations, and also his own creativity.’

• The Ares House

Daniel Arsham

He is known for his iconic ‘Future Relic’ concept, in which contemporary fads such as cameras, mobile phones, keyboards and cars become archaeological relics of a future world.

2.Design concept

（1）Design of the space （3）Style of work

① 3d model ② real space

Technological, pirated and funny

（2）Design of the four ridiculous products

Tactile: wind-powered electric fan that simulates the sea breeze

Hearing: conch headphones that can hear the sea Visual: Real-time seascape screen

Environmentally friendly: sofa made of recycled materials

The choice of using English narration with an accent adds to the witty feel .

The promotion style was based on dozens of Youtube videos of real estate agents, and was structured in three parts: an introduction 、a VR experience video and a summary leading to the purchase.

2.Design concept

schedule

① Virtual video

The main focus is on camera movements in 3d models and first-view video shots in VR mode. The content is designed to showcase a high-tech vision of the space, giving the consumer a false impression of the product and setting the stage for a later purchase. The narration is done in "Chinese" English with an accent, which brings a touch of weirdness to the techy promotional video.

② Video of the actual experience

The real experience video focuses on the use of four ridiculous products（The sea breeze generates electricity to power a fan to create sea breeze, a conch to listen to the sound of the sea, a screen with real-time AR to see the sea view, and an eco-friendly interactive sofa made from recycled rubbish bags.）, with exaggerated explanations and an overall style that refers to real estate agents' promotional videos to deceive consumers purchases.

of the website

2.Products

3.Shooting

2.Video of the actual experience View the video:https://youtu.be/o5nP9qUVPa0

“MUCUS MAN”

View The Video：https://youtu.be/gUJq92XIDYw

Video installation

Sensors、Arduino、Processing、Screen、Door 200x80x100（cm）

2022 Information

This is an individual project. In older neighborhoods in Northeast China, locals frequently get together in groups to gossip. In-depth research has shown that this phenomenon may be related to farming and social backdrop, the region's densely packed ‘Soviet’ architecture, its long, chilly winters.This interactive installation focuses on the conflict between the gossiping older group and the younger group's sense of the boundaries of conversation. The sticky interpersonal relationships of the old neighborhoods are abstractly expressed through the movements of the human mouth and mucus. The project is an attempt to turn social boundaries into a 'door within a door', with distance sensors and analogue temperature sensors, using Arduino and Processing in tandem to play an experimental video ,through stimulating visual images representing young people's resistance to the breaking of social boundaries.

1.Storage vegetables&Gossip

Due to the cold winters in northeastern China, it is difficult to grow green vegetables, so before the onset of winter, residents store vegetables and spread them out to dry. This process often results in a group of chatty gossips, mostly middle-aged and older people .

2.Northeast China's farming and social backdrop

Agricultural production in northeast China is characterised by openness, with a significant number of people working on a sharing space. This has also led to a relatively wide range of perceived personal space, more openness within groups and blurred social public boundaries. As a result, they rarely recognize that personal space should also be part of one's personal property, lack awareness of spatial boundaries and tend to violate the boundaries of others in chat.

【Ten common gossip topics】

Do you have a partner?

When are you going to get married?

When will you have children?

Have you bought a house or a car?

How is your job?

Have you been promoted this year?

How much is your salary?

How much money did you make?

How are your grades?

Why have you gained weight?

3.The influence of the architectural style of the living area

Most of the old neighbourhood buildings in the north-east of China are Khrushchev buildings, known in China as ' masonry apartment buildings of three to commercial housing, the private space of the individual privacy is almost impossible to guarantee pressure for individual expression to be subordinated to collective expression in the living pattern.

created a rare kind of residential

. In the 'Soviet-style building' period, access to information was neighborhood transmission and distribution to the As a result, the residents of the had the habit of gathering downstairs in public places to icts with the young people's pursuit of their own space and

4.Boundary awareness

In his book Boundaries of the Self, George Dade suggests, "Boundaries, as they are called, are about letting your business be yours and my business be mine."  It is not like a physical boundary that has a specific outline, but this sense of boundary is protecting us psychologically from being in a comfortable state.  When someone is looking at me and whispering to the person at the same time, I have a very strong feeling of being violated. My attention is focused on the expression of the person talking, the wrinkling of their mouth and the change in their body shape, all small details that disgust me and make me feel that my privacy is being exposed.

5.Young people's resistance to border encroachment

There are three things that almost every young person in China has encountered during the New Year: parents forcing them to get married, naughty children causing trouble and relatives asking questions. A few years ago, we only saw people tweeting together on social media platforms, but recently young people have been fighting back, and there are even tutorials on the internet on how to deal with people who break their boundaries.

Fei Xiaotong summarises the characteristics of the actions of acquaintance society : (1) public opinion presses people; (2) "face" has a price; and (3) "social capital" can be accumulated. These three aspects basically cover the three elements of traditional Chinese life: (1) ethics and morality; (2) human face; and (3) the operation of relationships and the control and management of authority that the three superimpose.

George Dieter thinks that selfboundary building helps us to know clearly the extent of our responsibilities and rights and those of others, and to know what we can and cannot do. Ego boundaries are invisible, but they are real.

Sandra Jovchelovitch propose that representation is the basis of all knowledge, the interrelationship of the self, the other and the object world. The occurrence and development of representation and its realisation in social life are key to understanding the connections between knowledge and individual, interpersonal and socio-cultural contexts.

7.Visual research

News of the construction of a workers' village as reported in the Shenyang Daily. 1978 saw the rapid expansion of the urban area of Shenyang. The city's population was growing faster than the rate of residential construction. The dire situation of housing shortage and overcrowding reminded urban planners of Soviet-style architecture.

• Shenyang Daily

1.Brainstorm

3.lips、tongue and scallions

4.Experimental video

Social boundaries are like doors that are both defensive and permeable to the outside world.To simulate a sense of boundary breaking, the viewer needs to get down and open a small door to trigger the interaction.

2.Construction

400x magnified images of licking the camera's tongue

400x magnified images of lips

400x magnified images of scallion

The video focuses on the licking of tongues and the clashing of lips when speaking

Screenshot of the experimental video

Creative process

1.Doors

2.Conversions

3.Sensors&Coding

Arduino：capture sensor’s signals & transmit “0/1”via the port to processing

Processing：Receive signals to control video playback

Arduino processing communication

Analog temperature sensor

When someone opens the small door and brings their head close, the temperature of the exhaled air causes the temperature sensor to pick up the signal and trigger the video playback

Fighting back against boundary-breakers with visual aggression

“OPEN MOUTH”

View The Video：https://youtu.be/_011BLIh4xs

Experimental video

Blender、AE、Final cut

1’14’’ 2022

Information

This is an individual project. In the China’s zero-covid strategy background, the phenomenon of over-prevention by local governments has emerged. Nucleic acid testing agencies make huge profits, and some enforcers ‘Da Bai’ ignore regulations to enforce centralized segregation of residents. I spent almost three months in ‘covid zero’ lockdown in 2022, in a space separated from people and from society.

In this space, my mental world gradually developed into a new, cold space of oppression, political propaganda, habitual hoarding and gridlock, and I wanted to present my mental world as a work, so I created the virtual world ‘OPEN MOUTH’.

1.Excessively frequent mandatory nucleic acid testing

After the Omicron became the main variant worldwide, China made nucleic acid testing a mainstay of daily life: Shenzhen, a city of 20 million people and mostly of working age, has been requiring nucleic acid testing every 24 hours, and this can generate nearly 100 million dollars a day for testing companies.

2.Centralized isolation space: Square Cabin（Fangcang） Hospital

The over-proofing of some areas has turned into a massive SM obedience test for Chinese people, which almost everyone can sense the absurdity of, but has to be carried out.

3.Digital management for a matrix of urban communities

In urban and rural grassroots society, the decisive role in the implementation of the Party and government policies is played by the "community" and "grid management".

If we consider the whole country as a chessboard, then the smallest basic unit is the "grid", in which the grid members are responsible for collecting information in each area and entering it into the "grid system".

4.Low-childhood promotion：Da Bai’s image of heroism

The main problems encountered in reality are the excessive delegation of power, the inability of the people's voice to be transmitted off the grid and the resulting sense of powerlessness that the community’s problem cannot be solved at all.

Da Bai refers to the epidemic prevention staff in China who wear white, one-piece protective clothing. It's the same word as Baymax, the main character of the Big Hero 6, in Chinese.

I resent the use of juvenile terms for epidemic workers, which on the one hand entertain serious action in response to an epidemic disaster, and on the other hand create an overly generalized image of the worker: whatever the character of everyone's actions in the workplace, they will all be attributed to the word 'Da Bai'. The result is that the over-protective staff also act in a personalized and misguided way, cloaked in the image of the "Da Bai Hero" that has been ingrained in them.

5.Mental aspects of the Covid19 isolation aftermath: Hoarding&Anxiety

I spent a total of almost three months in isolation in 2022, and there was a noticeable change in my mental state after the varying lengths of isolation, as I was prone to extreme anxiety about being positive, which seriously a

I would habitually buy more than I normally use in each shopping, stocking up for the next upcoming of quarantine. Even now that China's epidemic control policy has been adjusted, I still can't shake these mental problems.

In her essay, Sontag reflects on and critiques the way in which such things as tuberculosis, AIDS and cancer have been metaphorically transformed in the interpretation of society from "a mere disease of the body" to a moral critique and then to a political oppression.

In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly reveals the loneliness of man in a world of alienation, the increasing alienation of the individual and himself, and the inevitability of sin and death, but he does not despair and decay while revealing the absurdity of the world.

In this book, Foucault analyses the multiple roles of civil society vis-à-vis social governance, which is both relatively autonomous and at the same time an object of governance intervention. Civil society is thus in no way the antithesis of the state, but a correlate of free governance.

6.Contextual research

7.Visual research

‘TOTAL MELTDOWN’ Carol Civre, 2020

Cajuca

‘まさゆめ’, 2021

Joe Mortell

‘Tide’

Darren Almond，2008

Alberta Whittle,2019

• Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors

• La Peste

•  Naissance de la biopolitique

I envisaged three spatial scenarios to express my vision of how over-proofing and compulsory nucleic acid tests and the policy of lockdown and isolation will continue and shape a new society.

1. The entrance to the world: an open mouth during nucleic acid testing

2. Community square: a dense grid of residential living spaces and some Big Dumb Objects, the ‘Da Bai Sculpture’

3. Souvenir shop: selling heroes of the era ‘Da Bai’

I wanted to create a ‘Covid19 nightmare’ through surreal materials and healthy code colors of ‘red, yellow and green’.

2.Space Design

Creative Process

It's better to wear a mask than a respirator

It’s better at home than in the ICU

Stay in home and take three tests in three days

Door-to-door this year, grave visit next year

Door-to-door today, Covid19 will come tomorrow

To visit is to kill each other. To party is to kill yourself.

Beating the epidemic is everyone's responsibility

Stay at home in peace and benefit yourself and others

All meals invited are now Hongmen Banquets