Fei Studio

sociaal-maatschappelijk , sieraden , Objecten , Design , Abstract

If human emotions are understood as a form of energy,
the artist explores how this energy can be harnessed,
transformed, and re-transmitted through specially
designed industrial devices.
By converting emotional intensity into other energetic forms,
the work challenges conventional notions of machines,
and proposes a new way of sensing, storing, and perceiving emotion.

**Tear Gun-Frozen tears as a metaphor** - The impossibility to speak up in self-defence during a confrontation with a tutor resulted in an internal burst of frustration, but externally only defenceless tears emerged.Those tears were later transformed into frozen bullets and shot though a device of universal authority. Tear gun, rather than a weapon is a result of a personal realisation, an empowered mean of expression that uses the body's product of weakness as an invigorating source of empowerment, challenging contemporary structures of power and authority. It has proven to be technically feasible and symbolically powerful, in a way that instantly makes it universal.

**Excuse Me-A social escape tool** - How can objects act as mediators within people’s interactions? A self-inflated chair portrays the accumulation of personal anxiety within social occasions, acting as an intercessor for a polite escape within awkward situations. A pneumatic and a weight-balanced mechanism inflates and deflates the device, visualising social awkwardness in a humorous way by introducing the subtle manner of negation proper from Taiwan, as a humorous contrast with the directness of the Dutch culture. Excuse Me explores the role of objects, mechanisms and physics within the emotional and social realm and how humour is a lubricator of people's social life.

**F/EEL-How does it feel like to be an eel?** - One evening in the North Sea, a baby eel was approaching the Dutch coastline. The trip had been long: from the Sargasso Sea it drifted 6,000 km on the Gulf Stream eastwards across the Atlantic Ocean. Moving upstream, it was eager to continue its life in the fresh waters, but little did it know the arduous obstacles ahead — a world not designed for eels [1]. And hence the journey began. Intrigued by the strenuous yet perplexing lives of European eels, a critically endangered species that can live up to 80 years, artists Sheng-Wen Lo and Yi-Fei Chen created a space not designed for humans — a series of interactive contraptions that transpose these eels’ unfortunate encounters into human terms [2]. Our lives may be difficult, but what is it like to be an eel? [1] Artificial hindrances for eels include hydraulic barriers such as dams and pumping stations, contaminated water bodies, invasive parasites and illegal poaching. Despite recent endeavours in fish passage constructions, survival for eels is not yet easy, but barely possible. [2] Although one would never succeed in fully reconfiguring the eels’ subjective experiences into that of humans’, attempting with best effort, unlike not trying at all, opens up possibilities for us to imagine, question and discuss.

**Trigger your story** - Chen uses a mix of creative strategies like design thinking and storytelling and encourages participants to reach new forms of self-expression and exploration. Letting your intuition and storytelling capabilities take you on a surprising journey.

Art workshop - research stage

Datum: 01-08-2023 t/m 01-10-2023

Locatie: Depot Boijmans Museum

In samenwerking met: Depot Boijmans Museum

The workshop draws inspiration from *Superhero Therapy and incorporates storytelling, design method and therapeutic techniques, providing a creative and supportive environment for individuals to explore and empower themselves, helping them to reflect and reframe their life exprience.

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