FOMULA

FORMULA

Installation art, Academic research, Dry ice arcylic board | 3 weeks in 2020

Robin Collyer, Kersten Geers and Sharon Johnston's speech about the discussion on "Economy of mean" at Lisbon Triennale has made me start to presume how to quantify a successful architecture and artwork. Rowan Moore mentioned a formula in "Why We Build" - Environment X Construction X Marketing = Value. This formula successfully quantifies the Palm Islands in Dubai as a successful commercial building group,

IMMERSION + ENVIRONMENT + CONSTRUCTION + SENSORY STIMULI = CONSCIOUSNESS TO CONVEY

People's understanding of installation art is largely derived from the inherent thinking, the origin of installation art is to combine multiple life scenes and commodity, it just WWlike the inherent thinking in mathematics - 1 + 1 = 2, which everyone knows, so as long as I make the art formula as simple as 1 + 1 = 2, then the work can be understood by the public. For a more professional audience, What I need is to make the background of the work stronger - make the formula of 1 + 1 = 2 more complicated internally.

The choice of whether to smoke or not is one of the choices every teenager has to go through when they enter into the society. This work is intended to reflect this kind of social phenomenon and guide the audience to think about the option to smoke. In this work, each box represents a family, which is a unit of the society. And three families can form a society. For sensory stimulation, I added the smell of smoke in the room, which brought an olfactory shock to the audience. In the choice of environment, I chose a narrow indoor environment, which makes the sensory stimulation of the whole work more intense.

Air pollution has always been the main cause of poor air quality. This work explores the relationship between social factors and air pollution, as well as the application of the formula. The damage to nature caused by air pollution is obvious, and the chain reaction will also cause irreparable harm to human beings, just like the traces left by dry ice on acrylic sheets. I think this work is a work with a time dimension. When the dry ice sublimates, it will be beautiful, but behind the dry ice, there are indelible traces on the acrylic plate. For the formula, I changed

the environment and the sensory stimuli, which resulted in different ideas being communicated.