Chunyi Shen

By utilising stone as the fundamental medium, it connects various systems: human consciousness space(brain and neurone); bodily space, (encompassing meridians and blood vessels); natural micro-network space (comprising tree roots and microorganisms); and virtual space(AI and extended code). 

At the heart of the project lies the creation of symbiotic spaces, inviting audiences to immerse themselves in the resonance of frequencies and contribute to the formation of a new unified system. Serving as a symbol of unity, the artwork interconnects diverse perspectives, fostering collaboration among all entities within the universe.

Introduction

This immersive experience presents a narrative set in a post-human context. In a not-so-distant future, human intervention and technology threaten to severely damage the ecosystem, and the virtual world becomes a constructed "sacred place" offering an escape from reality, where humans can immerse themselves, forgetting their true selves and the state of the real world.

Two spaces undertake a part of the narratives respectively. Each has its own metaphor and is connected to an analogical medium - slime mold. Slime mold performs as a symbolic element throughout the spaces.

Slim mold is the fourth category of life form that is nor bacteria, nor plants and nor animals. Corresponding to the rhizomatic de anthropocentrism view brought by the development of the virtual world, which has blurred the boundaries between people and other species, between nature and man-made, and between material and non-material.

Memories of slime molds from anchor times and extends from now to the future, a storyline is created to shuttle between the past, the present and the future, and the growth structure of slim mold metaphors the intangible network form of the virtual world.

From reality to virtuality, from consciousness to unconsciousness, from human beings to microorganisms, from the microstructure to the grand perspective, asking questions about human ontology:

“In the dream, you are?”

Poetic narrative

Fuzzy silky particles

 Fainting into a faint spectrum

 Flowing infinity

 Consciousness stacks and folds

 Carved by dynamics into neuron sculpture

 Blue vertigo buried the universe

 A new reference system

 Simulation, sedimentation

 Sporangia zygote, cellular division

 Break up and dance in the body

 Nutrient sediment beyond the original condition

Transcend the solemn geography of human limits

 Falling into an infinite universe

 Into Dionysus, find freedom

 Liberate yourself

 Burrowing into oppressive soil

 Longing to find green

 It's the resonating rhythm

 It is the rhizome growth

 Tuber connection

 Linear structure

 Flooding into ontological space

 Gradually transparent

 Peeling off surface skin

 Becoming part of your body

 Limbs soak into the same composite plane

 To greet the moist, airless space.

 Becoming a body without organs

 Becoming a pure soul

 Imprisoned inside windows

 Trees try to stretch out

 But angry failure causes them to burn

Wrapped in mottled fragments of emotional memory

 Avoiding intergalactic spectra

 vacuoles and media

 Because the micro truth is no longer visible

 Do you know where you are?

 Maybe just a figment of my imagination?

 From being to becoming

 Past melts into future

 Returns to present reality

 Where

 Where to

 Where to go?

 Locked up in a dream:

 Such a strange sensation

 Will you wake up if you feel pain？

 Jumping out of this cage

 A giant 3D fantasy

 Reflections floating around

 Surrounded by controlling forces

 Submerged art of compassion

 From nature

 Part of nature

 Nature eventually takes over bodies

 Between breaths grow buds

 Wake up!

 Wake up!

 Are you a fire,

 Dare you burn?

 Are you ice,

 Dare you to freeze?

 Can you divide into new cells?

 Are you sure you're free?

 Dare you to shout out loud that you are free

 In a parallel universe- how would you be?

 Have you

 Have you thought

 Have you ever thought:

In the dream, you are?