what is life

what is life, what is death.

I think life itself, or being alive have a lot to say, and it is beautiful, to enable the visitors to give birth(virtually) to an artificial,(or out of nothing) through interactive pieces.

Well, to start, a striking artwork that deals with life and death is Demian Hirst's shark, "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living" . Another piece is a blood head sculpture " Self" , by Marc Quinn. Interactive pieces would be "pulse park" or "Spiral ...." by Rafael Lozano Hemmer.

Back to my idea, what is life? What do I want to say? Why should people interact with it? What experience should be remarkable to them? What is the process of life? What would be the end of life? What does it mean to die?

Well, I am half consciously thinking, I am just jotting down what I am thinking.

Life is light.Life is pulse. Life is breath. Life is fluctuation & flow. Life has motion. Life is warm. Life is physical.Life is present and ephemeral. Life is never contiuous. Life is limited. Life is self recognition of the self. Life is energetic. Life is blood. Life can be red. Life is humid. Life is smooth. Life is seeing.

Death is the end. Death cannot be postponed or refused. Once happend, cannot bring it back. Death is no pulse or breath. Death is blue or black. Death is cold. Death is future, but could be past also. Death is the fear of present being left as past. Death means the end of physical self. Death is mysterious. Death is bone. Death can be white. Death is dry. Death is crackle. Death is closing.


OK. Back to think my idea.

#1. Moment of present becoming the Past, (and the recognition of self and the desire to be rebel).
Chair of red, hemoglobin shape, white, is in the room with a spotlight.
You walk in, sit(or lay down). It changes into red. It pulses your beat, by vibration and sound. You realize that the chair is alive, with you. The other scuptural objects inside the room blinks according to your biosigals, following the chair. Then, suddenly, it vibrates to strong, that meaning it is irritated by you and it wants you to get off. You stand up and try to leave. Suddenly, the chair starts to Burn on fire, becomes as an ash, or crackle, meaning it dead.

#2. Giving birth to make alive.
There is a straw( or a tube) which has light coming out, and you have to blow in. When you blow in, it takes a photo of your eyes, and makes a bubbly figure appear on a screen with the image of your eyes captured. It then follows the rhythm of how you blew or how was your heartbeat during you were blowing, and it floats around the screen projection in the room. The bubbles created by others are already up in the ceiling, and it has the eyes of other people. The bubbles are all looking at the creature I created. When it floats up towards the ceiling, it gets smaller, and bluer. If you want to keep it down, you have to keep breathing inside of it. If you shake the tubing, it gets its pins up, getting sharp, and it kills other stuffs that have been created by others. If you leave it, it slowly dissolves and die. When it dies, it dies from the highest ceiling, and it makes an ash, amber, debrea fall down the wall, accumulated in the floor.

#3. the self.
There is a huge shell in the middle of the room. You approach, put your hand on it, and give them your voice, by saying something.(tell it one most precious thing for you in your life is, or you want to keep it within your life.) (or I might ask people to say one last thing they want to say) After you finish talking, you get off your hand and it will turn on to red, repeating what you have just said, it will echo along the room, lighting up the virtual creatures. Then, once it reaches the end, it echos all what other have just said, and it blinks in turn, and it dies, by turning off the light, or breathing off. It will be also like a symphony of land, with all the other people, who experienced this in the past. At the end, it will go back to my words, echoing, and it will slowly dim, meaning it is dieing. ( I have to decide, whether to ask people to say something , or just make a sound with their voice. I have to think of what kind of question to ask.)


#4. Funny. Funny. Making things that are artificial, into life.
There is a shell. Whatever you put inside, will become alive and move around and if you take it out (inside the screen). There will be an invisible camera inside, and it will take an xray photo of it. It starts to move around the screen, and then it burns and disappears. OPS. This is then about commercial objects.