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Statement
Graphic Design

Experimental Communication

My Place in a Non-place Series


June 2022

My Place in a Non-place Series is a multi-disciplinary work, which includes installation, performance, and video. This project illustrates a hacker who uses Google Maps to transform the body in her hometown (North East China) through three different spaces: anthropological place, meta-space, and non-place. The installation is shown as a non-place format via printing google maps. The performance was formed with two parts: 1. Read five concrete poetry stories to show the outer brain in meta-space. 2. Body movement to show the memory of each place. The performance and video are divided in five series which connect to five anthropological places (Abandoned residence, Primary school, Middle school, High school, and train station) which articulate this hacker’s cultural background and identity. The video shows the documentation of the performance and entwines the audience into a journey through being unfamiliar with the non-places to build emotional connections with the anthropological places. The aim of this project is using a critical perspective to present the current situation of co-evolution with the media in a data-obsessed society, and reflect how contemporary human’s daily life is all watched over by machines of loving grace in a cybernetic ecology.

Medium:
Mixed Media



Link: https://youtu.be/-gecuDBPvSA