How Well is Your Backyard? | 你的后院还好吗？
custom-made bellow, DC motor, gear, custom-blown glass, artificial larynx, micro-controller(arduino), sensors and other materials 材质规格：定制风箱、电机、推杆、玻璃、人工喉、微型控制器, 2023
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The glass vessels each sing a vowel sound in human language, while the body is built out of ordinary materials, creating unpredictable living entities. The sound mimics human sound without the human corporal body, and the species breathes, becoming another species.
The human mode of living often entails the social and the political, and we are sectioned by ethnicity, race, gender and religion, and discriminate against each other. The lungs, through the larynx to the tip of the tongue, are what make the human a political being. Using this part of the human body’s system as a center, interspecies are created, collapsing human and nonhuman agencies together. When the world creates hybrids, does it create new modes of discrimination, or does it remove them and create an alter world where new meanings and definitions are created?
This project imagines a new mode of existence and explores “who we will become when species meet” (Donna J. Haraway) through speculative thoughts, humor, sonic experiments, and material movement studies.
玻璃容器各自唱着人类语言中的元音，而身体则由普通材料制成，创造出不可预知的生命体。声音模仿人类的声音，但没有人类的躯体，这个物种会呼吸、成为另一个物种。人类的生活方式往往涉及社会和政治，我们被民族、种族、性别和宗教分割开来，相互歧视。肺，通过喉咙到舌尖，是人类成为政治存在的基础。以人体系统的这一部分为中心，创造出了跨物种，当世界创造出混血儿时，它是创造了新的歧视模式，还是消除了歧视——创造出一个新的意义和定义的另一个世界？该项目通过推测性思考、幽默、声波实验和材料运动研究，想象一种新的存在模式，并探索“当物种相遇时，我们将成为谁”。