Search For Normality In Distortion
Date: 2020 December
Instructor: Jeanie Kim
Team: Jayhon Dai, Melanie Chu
University of Toronto
Distortion happens in all three scale: Urban, Domestic, Psychic.
This recent project explores the discourse of adaptability and distortion in response to the current pandemic and the new definition of “normal” life. The emergence of COVID changed people’s life significantly. It subconsciously leads to a change in our physical behaviors, collective behavior, public policy, architecture, and urban landscape. Subsequently, these infrastructural and political changes will have an impact back onto people’s behavior and slowly become a new norm and way of living. In this project, I work with two group mates to formulate the concept together, and each of us finding our own response to the topic through different mediums, word, sound, video,2D, and 3D. At the final stage, we combine as a group to envision the new “normal” after the urban deconstruction.
Experiment: Observation
Experiment: Video
Experiment: Text
Experiment: 2D Digital
Experiment: Sound
Experiment: 3D Digital
Distorted City: The city is growing wildly in an abnormal direction; The definition and the boundary between spaces are blurred. I used an abstract language to translate the absurdly quality through different juxtapositions of programs. The office is combined with the home. The church is placed inside a classroom, etc. This work is presented along with an audio piece; the audience is invited to have an immersive experience of the new spaces. Despite distortion is exaggerated, the internal chaos and mixed program are real.