SECOND HOME
10-2021
■ CREATIVE DIRECTION
■ EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN
□ PHOTOGRAPHY
□ SPACIAL DESIGN
□ GRAPHICS DESIGN
SECOND HOME, in simpler terms, is a visualisation of the liminality felt between two cultures. As British born Chinese, the feeling of alienation is a familiar one of which is shared collectively amongst children of immigrant parents or 1st generation immigrants alike. Situated in a ‘Frankenstein’ house of traditional Chinese architecture and that more of a contemporary one, 5 experiences take up different sections of the home, exploring themes of disorientation to the naivety of belonging. The experiences in question include:
- ACT I: The GOOD IMMIGRANT (Submission and the strife to keep moving forward nonetheless)
- ACT II: GROWING PAINS (Discomfort and the limitations to belong in either culture)
- ACT III: THE SANTUARY (The tranquil yet naïve moments of feeling accepted)
- ACT IV: AND THEN I WAS REMINDED (A push back into the ‘grey zone’ of being rejected)
- ACT V: ORIGIN NOWEHERE (Disorientation and insanity)
Inspired by Ikeda to Turrell, the experiences test the threshold of each visitor and their sensory capacities by elevating and overloading the experiences with constant and heavy sensory stimulation. This takes the form of rough surfaces as such in Act II to infrasound at 50 HZ in Act V. Its intention is to enable others to empathise with such whilst also enabling them to physically, and literally experience the abstract concepts related to such liminality.; One of which takes the form of terror and insanity to deter a visitor not of such background from wanting to come back. In contrast, it hopes to be a space of which sympathises with visitors who feel they belong in the grey zone between two cultures. In theory, it becomes a space revisited by such visitors, thus becoming their SECOND HOME
SUPPORTING EXHIBITION PAMPHLET