Pseudo-well: A Dilemmatic Aura of Modernity in the west and the non-west
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Date
2020
Authors
Zhang, Junwei
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University of Oregon
Abstract
My project Pseudo-well is an extension
of my previous work A Well. Back then I only had a vague plan to address
the disconnectedness of individual and our globalized space by using the
round shape of a tire and the depth of it to mimic the limited tiny world as
a well, but it wasn’t everything I hope for, and it lacked the interaction and sense of aesthetic immersion.
Pseudo-well is an installation consisting of junk tires. It looks like an
abandoned playground under this pandemic. By standing on the platform,
viewers can have the access to look inside the round well, at the same time
they will be overwhelmed by the smell of junk tires. A Kinect interactive
camera captures the body shape of the viewer and projects on what they
see at the bottom of the well — the moving sky, the sky may come from
the window view of a space station. When we look up, we look at the sky
even if you are standing in a well, but when we look down, we look into a
well, our world seems to be separated by a narrow window. With available
and limited access we have under this pandemic, we somehow become
frogs living in the well. Like many stranded airplanes, cars, even low price
oil, these tires become junk. Thus, our presence of self is replaced by the
absence of the self.
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22 pages