Work Analyzed: At the Door by Yanran Bi
About the Work: At the Door is an immersive installation project revolving around presenting the experience of an old Shanghai site through photos, audio, and digital presentation. This work wants to highlight home as a place of belonging, but also the abandonment of old communities where there is a division between occupied and vacant homes. Hence, this work also aims to provide the experience of the lives of the people to the audience through the audio and digital presentation which is something that could also be visited in Shanghai.
Reflection of Experience
For the experience, it has two connections to the course being the relation to the real that can be verified as well as the usage of photos and sound to create a narrative. Firstly, the project is based upon a real setting that can be verified. This creates an element of real into the project that provides it objectivity and substance, allowing for it to be interpreted as something that was created from verifiable location. Having a possible verification option would boost the overall belief of the immersion of this experience which would allow for an interpretation of it as a realistic experience that is indifferent from reality while being a framed installation piece.
In addition, the usage of photos and sound do allow for supporting this narrative of a reality that’s sprout from a reality, namely a part of the real from the real. This essentially refers to the use of empirical evidence through photos and recorded sound. For example, all of the photos are of the real and not fabricated (through verification) which allows for this evidence to support the experience of realness. This is likewise supported by sound which was real sound from the location that’s presented which again can be verified when one goes to the actual site. Essentially, the verifiability of such a project allows for the immersion of a fake fragmented experience to feel real and wholesome due to the controlled portrayed subjects from the real experience.
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