Site: Tsinghua University
9-Person team work
Team work: Installing
Personal work: Drawings, multimedia production
This project draws inspiration from Jean-Paul Sartre's exploration of the body as both a threatened machine and an extension of tools, where the body transcends its physical limits to adapt and interact with its environment. By connecting the body to space, Sartre highlights how tools and spaces become extensions of the self, embodying its vulnerabilities and capacities.
The project is a 3m x 3m x 3m interactive "spatial game" designed to explore the dynamic relationship between the human body, particularly the hand and space. Through the arrangement and assembly of spatial elements such as openings, steps, and passages, the game intentionally influences, disrupts, and even challenges the body’s movements. These interactions create specific relationships between the body and space, transforming physical activity into a performative exploration.