Security Pool
"Water represents an ecological environment of others."
The exhibition places the main area under the water. In essence, the physical and chemical properties of water and air are different, and naturally separate the two different Spaces. Compared with the solid ground beneath your feet, water is a flowing chaos. For most of the terrestrial environments in which humans live, water represents an ecological environment of others.
In 15th century literature and painting, there are images of ships of fools, full of deranged passengers who have been banished by the city. The passengers set out in the name of finding the ideal place, but in fact their fate has already been handed over to the unpredictable and endless sea. Water at this time represents insecurity and instability.
In psychiatric hospitals between the 17th and 19th centuries, water was used to treat and deal with madness, pain, frustration and silence. Water is a symbol of isolation and punishment. In the Bible, baptism with water is a special ritual within Christianity that purifies evil and makes people clean. Water represents rebirth.
“Safety Pit |” takes the meaning of water in different contexts as the index, and the psychological changes of “abnormal” as the narrative order, and discusses “rule and order” and “reconstruction of security after disorder”.
Guided Tour
Curator
Ye Mai is a first-year graduate student majoring in digital curation at USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry. Her research interests include serious game design in exhibitions and game-based learning. With a background in science and engineering and more than eight years of dance experience, she focuses on the integration of video, painting, dance and other art forms.
Artist
Li Tanzhirou, a first-year student of popular Science product design at the School of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University, is an amateur artist with a background in industrial design. She loves games and photography but is not proficient in them. She is full of interest in interactive experience in virtual space — “Create more interesting experiences”. Participants are expected to have fun.
The Door of Liminality
As the final part of the “Digital Exhibition Design” course and curatorial practice, the exhibition “Threshold Gate” has been opened on June 30th, jointly organized by USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry and Raiden INST, with Chen Junyao and Huang Songhao as the chief curators. The exhibition is co-curated by four curators from the 2022 MFA of USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry.