Dissociate
Categories
Installation
Collaborators
Ruixing Yang, Yuyan Xie, Yujie Huang
Material
Foam
Keywords
Meditation Identity Sensory Isolation Foam Device Self-perception
Year
2019
Dissociate began with a question about how personal identity is shaped under the continuous pressure of social expectations and technological mediation. In contemporary life, the self is rarely experienced in isolation; it is constantly filtered through systems of visibility, communication, and response. The project asks whether a temporary state of separation might create the conditions for a different kind of self-awareness.
Dissociate began with a question about how personal identity is shaped under the continuous pressure of social expectations and technological mediation. In contemporary life, the self is rarely experienced in isolation; it is constantly filtered through systems of visibility, communication, and response. The project asks whether a temporary state of separation might create the conditions for a different kind of self-awareness.
To explore this, the project develops a meditative environment through a foam-based experiential device. The softness, enclosure, and sensory qualities of the material help produce a space that feels detached from ordinary surroundings. This separation is not intended as total escape, but as a controlled condition in which the body can slow down, perception can become more inward, and attention can turn toward subtle relations between self, environment, and thought.
To explore this, the project develops a meditative environment through a foam-based experiential device. The softness, enclosure, and sensory qualities of the material help produce a space that feels detached from ordinary surroundings. This separation is not intended as total escape, but as a controlled condition in which the body can slow down, perception can become more inward, and attention can turn toward subtle relations between self, environment, and thought.
Dissociate proposes meditation as an active spatial condition rather than a passive retreat. The project invites participants to step outside habitual rhythms of social and technological life, if only briefly, and to experience a reconfiguration of self-perception through bodily immersion. In this sense, the installation becomes both a device for reflection and a small critique of the environments that continuously structure who we think we are.
Dissociate proposes meditation as an active spatial condition rather than a passive retreat. The project invites participants to step outside habitual rhythms of social and technological life, if only briefly, and to experience a reconfiguration of self-perception through bodily immersion. In this sense, the installation becomes both a device for reflection and a small critique of the environments that continuously structure who we think we are.
