Universal Skin Plan
video, installation, drawing2020
Single-channel video with sound (13’ 00” )
drawing printed on paper (240cm x 120cm)
installation:
printed texts & images with marker, plasterboard, acrylic board, discarded laptop screens(mirror surface), CPU, push pins, blue string; spartina alterniflora, the roots of spartina alterniflora, soil, other found natural materials from wetlands, found undead elements from wetlands, agar, salt, made skin-like substance, neon lights, metal, PVC, acrylic box, plastic bag, cable tie, wire
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Universal Skin Plan includes an essay film, a reflective drawing, and sculptures from the material experiment.
It's a research-based project based on several field research on three wetlands in Shanghai. It is to investigate the dynamic boundaries between human and natural spaces on the surface of the earth, and also to fiction a mutual and symbiotic situation between natural and built environment.