simulacra from tiansicong on Vimeo.
Society is a cage where we jeer at the people living inside
“SIMULACRA” is a mixed art-form installation that was inspired by my study of multiple personality disorder and the notion of self-awareness. Aligned with Jean Baudrillard’s concept - the metaphor of the surreal experience - this work was an attempt to understand and portray people who continually rebuild themselves. What I soon discovered is that there are many kinds of truth, and many notions of selfhood.
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Human beings are dynamic. Jean Baudrillard coined the term “simulacra”, and its cousin concept “appropriation,” to characterize this process. Personally, I think “juxtaposition” is more apt, given that any expression of aesthetics is beyond carrier constraints, the medium is only the tool to express the theme. We are moving into a period of bewilderment, a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the summit hope.
it is a religious moment, too, faced with the sublime. and there is danger.
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Simulacra from tiansicong on Vimeo.