Qi Xiao

空隙之间<Interstice Space> is a healing space created through digital art, projection art, poetry, sound and immersive experiences.

Qi Xiao is a digital artist based in London and Chengdu, currently studying for an MA in Information Experience Design at the Royal College of Art.

Her practice is passionate about film, installation art, projection art, spatial interaction, sound, poetry, and cross-media narratives. During her MA studies, she became interested in the aesthetics of nature and natural healing, so she began to focus on exploring the healing power that nature brings to people; and exploring the relationship between humans and nature, thus rethinking the place of people in nature and in all things in the universe. She experiments with a variety of sophisticated new media technologies to bring a broader immersive experience to the audience, providing a space for an expanded sensory experience through sound, poetry, video, colour, and light. Xiao invites the viewer to follow her on a romantic poetic journey into the collision of man, nature, the universe, and digital art.

Her work is cross-media, seeking a better expression and experience of narrative in both the virtual and the real, exploring the possibilities of combining 3D and digital art. Xiao remains committed to the creation of a narrative environment that seeks a wider resonance and connection with the audience.

This is a digital film processed with Blender, Touch Design through live video and 3D scanning.

空隙之间<Interstice Space> is a healing space created through digital art, projection art, poetry, sound and immersive experiences.

Nowadays, more and more young people feel nervous and even anxious about the crowded, busy traffic and fast urbanized life in cities. 空隙之间 <Interstice Space> provides a space for the audience to breathe, relax, meditate, and feel the power of being healed. The project explores how self-healing for groups with anxiety can be assisted through the installation of spatial art. Discussing how elements of nature can be used to achieve healing in unnatural areas, it further explores the synergy between the earth and individual human well-being.

In a stressful urbanized life, people find a balance between the gaps in their lives to heal themselves. "It is a human instinct to drift off, but people seem to be so used to the bombardment of information in their busy lives that they forget that such 'relaxation spaces' are everywhere with us in the first place. I invite the audience to feel the stillness of time and the blurring of space, thus reminding them to find their own space "away" from the fast-paced life of the city, to find the gap between human beings and the city, and to go there to wander beyond.

The poem is divided into three chapters.

Chapter1:

Explore

"I explore the unknown of nature. "

Chapter2:

Healing

"Nature healed me."

Chapter3:

Integration

"I am a part of the natural life."

This space is more like a language that describes the relationship between humans and nature, seeking to expand and remedy the emotional connection between humans and nature, thus bridging some of the gaps in the human spiritual space. But my hope is that the viewer is not limited to this one physical space, but that from this physical space, each person can find a place to connect with its psychological space.

空隙之间(Interstice Space)-Poetry

Interstice Space connects the audience in three separate ways: a sensory experience, an interactive experience and an emotional experience. The space is filled with a light natural smell that is relaxing, quiet, and secure.

The materials used in the space are soft and skin-friendly, allowing the audience to achieve maximum relaxation in their sensory experience. The space has relaxation positions for the audience to sit or lie down, and the audience is guided to relax and imagine through sound and poetry.

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Immersive Spatial Projection, Installation Space, Digital Film, Sound Design

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The video shows a realistic audio-visual experience of the healing space, using immersive projection technology to extend the viewer's senses.

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Projection, Sound Design, Poetry, Organza, Wood, Acrylic, Lighting

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空隙之间(Interstice Space) Digital Film – This digital film is the projected content of an immersive space. The author takes the viewer on a poetic and relaxing journey through nature itself, taking the viewer into each "healing space" where nature connects. xiao uses digital technology to transform the real scenes into a healing garden in the mind,and adds a combination of poetry, nature sounds, and specific frequencies of sound, seeking a broader connection between man, nature, and the universe.

- Explore "I explore the unknown of nature. "

- Healing "Nature healed me."

- Integration "I am a part of the natural life."

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Film, 3D scanning, Blender, TouchDesigner, After Effects, Sound Design, Poetry

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00:05:03

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"Water is the source of all things, and great knowledge is hidden in the water.” The project aims to imagine the forms in which natural water systems write and connect information and memories with humans by collecting different memories of water from the viewer. I take the viewer on a poetic journey, inviting them to hear the constructed sound narrative environment and see the phenomenal flow of natural and cosmic memories, contemplating the metaphors emanating from the natural water system.

I try to use installations, digital art, film, and sound narratives to connect with the audience. We create a sound narrative space by picking and collecting different people's memories of the water, evoking the audience's memories of nature and water.

We guide the audience's natural imagination through natural metaphors. Allowing the audience to rethink water, the memory of natural life, the continuity of everything in the universe, and to resonate with and reflect on the existing world of nature.

In Collaboration with:

Weiwei Zheng

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Experimental Film, Sound Narrative, Memory, Interview

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