Today is 32nd
2024.05-07
Mixed media:3D print / film
"Today is 32nd" is a futuristic utopia that aims to create a narrative design experience by combining props and audio-visual elements. This vision contrasts sharply with the past, where fleas were "enslaved" and despised and explores the entangled evolutionary relationship between fleas and humans.
The project imagines a potential symbiotic partnership between humans and fleas in the future. By using festivals as the design medium and incorporating future ritual instruments, it attempts to build a flea-centred celebration.
This project creates a speculative space for audiences to engage with tiny organisms through non-realist aesthetics, fostering dialogue on the intersections of biology and design. By encouraging audiences to consider the importance of these organisms in daily life, the project highlights the impact of human activity on species evolution and aims to stimulate public interest in ecosystems and bioart.
"Fleatopia," a resting and communication space for fleas. In this future, fleas may have human-like skin features, with the land dominated by white furry surfaces adapted to their new bodies. Fleatopia symbolizes the flea's escape from its stereotypical image as a pest and is an initial attempt to make fleas an "audience." It also marks the flea's brief return to nature and its own species in a highly urbanized future where they coexist with humans
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This instrument marks the beginning of the ceremony and symbolizes a quick farewell to the past. It incorporates elements of a rattle, using the contrasting forms of squares and circles to produce short, rapid sounds.
Inspired by the traditional incense-burning ceremony, which is the second step, creating a connection with the ceremony's object. The design features three acrylic tubes, representing the past, present, and future, and produces meaning through three distinct string sounds.
This instrument is based on a soft membrane and tube-like structure, inspired by the traditional ritual of offering food. With a large flat surface and transport tubes pointing in all directions, it symbolizes harmony and communication, producing gentle, interactive sounds.
As the final step of the ceremony, Tinkle Tink is not a symbol of the end but a connection to an unknown future and a higher level. Resembling a wind chime, it represents a sacred and distant moment.