Name: Shuttling
Date: June 2015
Time: 1 minute and 49s
Work Type: Media artistic installation and video
Concept
With the increasingly fast economic development, the Chinese urbanization process is also accelerated and many cities seem to be filled with towering buildings that have a strong sense of modernity. However, people’s deeper understandings of such cities make them find out many defects. For example, the urbanized development is imbalanced; the infrastructure is developing slowly; the urban planning is chaotic. All of these make people feel a strange suppression when shuttling between the streets of metropolis filled with towering buildings. Faced with such imbalanced urban development, we need to make reflections.
Inspiration
I used to love towering buildings very much when I was a little child. Every time I met a high building, I named it with a number in my heart. This is because I thought the bigger the number of towering buildings is, the better people’s living condition becomes. Back then, I walked throughout the city, yet only counted 32 high buildings. One day, however, the towering buildings in my hometown sprung up and became increasingly tall. Conversely, people’s emotions become increasingly depressed and their trouble increase as well. At present, this city has been filed with towering buildings. However, my commemorations for the era of only 32 high buildings increased. Because of this, I decided to create works which can interact with viewers to express my strange internal changes and make viewers understand such emotions in my heart.
Creative Thinking
I found out that using only the print-drawing or other plane drawing means cannot represent my expectations towards viewers’ interactions with the work accurately. I thus started to try the artistic means of media artistic installation that I’ve never tried before. By making viewers be in the crowded modern metropolis, they can feel the suppressions of being in it and reflect over such imbalanced development.