Mengyun Xie, b.1998, China
Mengyun Xie is a cross-media artist, experimental experience designer and product designer.
Passionate about exploring the subtle bonds between human, objects and surrounding environment, Mengyun focuses on exploring the overlapping narratives of materiality, temporality and humanity through interactive experiences. She believes that our senses are an important connection to the world and that multi-sensory experience design is a key direction of her practice.
Just as the gears within a precision clock need to set the right parameters of bite between them in order to make the system work ...
My industrial design background has developed my logical thinking and my ability to reconcile the whole with the local. Studying at the RCA reset my initial questions about the sameness of the nature of different things. I try to break through the boundaries between the internal structures of things and look for subtle and imperceptible entry points in life.
Aphasia aims to re-observe and re-think plants as living beings rather than as static objects. Amplify their inner movements, emotions and feelings and present them in visual and acoustic form. Explore "empathy" by uncovering the connection between plants and humans. Explore the possibilities of the future of biological equality.
Can plants feel joy or pain?
Do plants express emotions?
Do they want to actively communicate with humans?
What if plants could speak?
Too often, as humans, we see plants as static objects rather than as living beings. They do not speak. They can’t run away or hide. But there is much more to this world of consciousness and feeling than just humans…
