Yuyan Huang

 This project is a narrative of a monologue about the inner state of a person when internal conflict happens. I feel that when conflict happens within me, there are often many different voices in my head that are arguing, and these voices make up the conflict within me. 

In the first part of the project, I built a mental space which is a spinning machine. I found that when I was in a conflict situation, I would create a high wall for myself to protect my inner vulnerability. When I started to think, different voices would come out of their own space and start to speak to me. They appear and disappear, and the faster my mind thinks, the more often these voices appear. On the other hand, this internal activity also simulates a situation in which I am constantly walking in place when I am confronted with conflict, only able to turn in place and not find an exit.

To explore the materialisation of virtual space this work creates layered images based on collected posts on a chat app and social media. We have a space of our own on social media, we can dress up our space as much as we want, and then each day we post is like adding layer after layer, and filter after filter to ourselves. But on the other hand, we are also trapped in our creation because it is hard to reach real people in this remote social situation, and the layers of postings actually create a detachment from reality. We want to get to know someone through this virtual space, but in reality it often becomes hazy and it is harder to see the person behind the layers of decoration and filters.