2022 Dench Studio, RCSSD
Cooperated with: JingYi Liu, Yiyi Zou
This project starts by thinking having a good-life fantasy will not make our lives good. And postponing the belief that having imaginations for the future is not necessary for lives. This project focuses more on the moment when fantasy fails rather than what it could bring us. I consider what makes the fantasy blue prints so vivid and important and question the strategies of living we have created for living in the present.
The costume is made with several bath balls covered with muslin. It become heavy which limits my movement when wearing it. It occurs to me that, it is in the same situation that when our fantasies get too overwhelming, they would change the way we act or even think.
I explore materials through my bodies and physically engage in them. I found the unlimited potential of the material and generated ideas through improvisation and division. In my project, to explore my questions in a scenographic way, I was performing an act of destroying fantasy by using my movement to pressure and extrude the water balloons that trigger the bath bombs and create the effervescent effect simultaneously. Through time, I could feel the change in my body and the way I move. Not only is it too weighty to move naturally, but also, I notice that since I put all my attention on the bubbles, I feel like myself and the action of destroying fantasy are the only things left in the space.
Cooperated with: JingYi Liu, Yiyi Zou
This project starts by thinking having a good-life fantasy will not make our lives good. And postponing the belief that having imaginations for the future is not necessary for lives. This project focuses more on the moment when fantasy fails rather than what it could bring us. I consider what makes the fantasy blue prints so vivid and important and question the strategies of living we have created for living in the present.
The costume is made with several bath balls covered with muslin. It become heavy which limits my movement when wearing it. It occurs to me that, it is in the same situation that when our fantasies get too overwhelming, they would change the way we act or even think.
I explore materials through my bodies and physically engage in them. I found the unlimited potential of the material and generated ideas through improvisation and division. In my project, to explore my questions in a scenographic way, I was performing an act of destroying fantasy by using my movement to pressure and extrude the water balloons that trigger the bath bombs and create the effervescent effect simultaneously. Through time, I could feel the change in my body and the way I move. Not only is it too weighty to move naturally, but also, I notice that since I put all my attention on the bubbles, I feel like myself and the action of destroying fantasy are the only things left in the space.