Title: — —

(em dash em dash)

Date: 2/14/2020

Unfortunately currently you can’t experience it through this platform. It is an in person experience.

Topic/theme:

Anxiety and fear of presenting self.

The installation is going to demonstrate how one may feel when they are in the moment that taking everything negatively and start to fight with themselves. The narrative is in a situation that she needs to present her ideas, but the other two voices in her are throwing negative feedbacks to her. Meanwhile, the information from the past in her mind is also disturbing her. In psychology, this could happen when people are afraid of getting hurt from others and they decide to hurt themselves in advance so it would be less painful when they get hurt. This may also be associated with low trust to different subjects. The audience will listen to the presentation one at a time.

Reason for the title:

An em dash can be used to: mark a break in a sentence, set off parenthetical statements, interruption by someone else, Self-interruption.

Location:

Sound class classroom. (With one light covered)

Set up:

4 main speakers and 6 satellite speakers dispersed in the room, a sony camera on a tripod recording in the corner with notice that “you are under record”. The setting is to create surrounded sound effect + psychological pressure. Individual speakers work as “memory fragments” providing clues of why she think in this way.

Content:

Main: [Track one]: A failed record of me presenting my idea in front of a camera.

[Track two]: Me scolding myself.

[Track three]: Me arguing back.

[Track four]: Ambient sound.

Satellite speakers:

[A]: News about Redcross corruption.

[B]: News about “My dad is Ligang”.

[C]: News about rumors in Nuclear leakage. (People buying salt)

[D]: People talking about sustainability & animal protection.

[E]: News about people destroying Japanese cars in China.

[F]: View point from western world and eastern world.