Fish-Like Bird Community | zoey-linwanchen

Through the observation from cultural codes and eastern costumes, traditional paper-cut art and totem, in the Chinese society, reveal mainstream consciousness toward love, sex and felicities for “reproduction” and “normal pattern” in miniature. With the passage of time, expected role played by women should be loyal and humble.

"The shells of moral pattern" suppress female desire, bodies and soul so they don’t have self-oriented cogitation but serve others as anchor point to move. In hence, facing external changes, they are defenseless within empty shells in the patriarchal environment.

Nowadays, love and sexual connection cannot be limited by “moral pattern” or “legal framework”. Instead of ignoring the phenomenon and humanities under the surface of shell, we should face the gap between “moral surface” and “underlying reality” with open discussion.

Through the observation from cultural codes and eastern costumes, traditional paper-cut art and totem, in the Chinese society, reveal mainstream consciousness toward love, sex and felicities for “reproduction” and “normal pattern” in miniature. With the passage of time, expected role played by women should be loyal and humble.

"The shells of moral pattern" suppress female desire, bodies and soul so they don’t have self-oriented cogitation but serve others as anchor point to move. In hence, facing external changes, they are defenseless within empty shells in the patriarchal environment.

Nowadays, love and sexual connection cannot be limited by “moral pattern” or “legal framework”. Instead of ignoring the phenomenon and humanities under the surface of shell, we should face the gap between “moral surface” and “underlying reality” with open discussion.

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Fish-Like Bird Community

Animation installation

2013

With the leapfrog generation of consumer electronics technology, modern people are immersed in the Internet or other means of social websites by turning on the computers and sliding their fingers on the screen which widen the gap between people and real world. Such a phenomenon inspires me to create the animation installation.

In this work, there are “Fish-Like Birds” made by dough on each acrylic box in different height. The new-fangled creature is the epitome of current-day people who have been indulged in the cyberspace for period of time. As a result, they tend to forget know how to interact with others . They are compressed in the considerably flat virtual space, having no real interaction with each other. Although relationship seems to be flat and monotonous, the inner part gradually mildew and crack because of being lack in real understanding which may backfired the development of society.

In the middle line of the works, the animation in three digital photo frames connect together, playing motion graphics continuously.

From the above and left pictures,"Fish-Like Birds" made by dough cracked and mildewed naturally and gradually in the environment of exhibition. Throgh the light from the light box, people can observe the process and inner layer of creatures. On the top of this page, these pictures shows the condition of the work after a year.