architecture/
Market in a Groove Box
Living and Being, in Parallel and Paradox
Where Love Flows Beyond Death
audiovisual/
Clubbing Phenomenologically
Ladder Performances Selection
craft/
GuQin
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Suzhou | Independent | 2025-26
The human nervous system can process approximately 110 bits of information per second; a conversation occupies 60 bits, explaining why people can’t listen to two speakers at once (Csikszentmihalyi, 2004). The goal of this project is to create an experience where the club occupies all 110 bits of cognitive bandwidth, where people would prefer not to converse but to concentrate on clubbing, to be drowned by the club.
As an on-going experimental party series launched by Ladder, the project approaches the club as an experiential field of perception, while being informed by phenomenological investigations into embodied perception. Arduino sensors were adopted to capture people's biological signals, which were streamed into Touch Designer for visual design, establishing a closed-loop interaction between body, perception, and environment.
Aiming to develop it into a research-level project, I hope to work with more advanced biometric indicators such as EEG, fMRI or eye tracking, to make it a data-driven empirical study. On the spatial side, I aim to explore how the club's spatial features shape human cognition. On the musical side, I aim to investigate the potential of genres such as minimal, ambient or hypnotic to facilitate dancing as another form of moving meditation and healing.
References
Böhme, G. (1993). Atmosphere as the fundamental concept of a new aesthetics. Thesis Eleven, 36(1), 113–126. https://doi.org/10.1177/072551369303600107
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (2004). Flow, the secret to happiness [Video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_flow_the_secret_to_happiness
Eliasson, O. (2003). The weather project [Installation]. Tate Modern. https://olafureliasson.net/artwork/the-weather-project-2003/
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of perception (C. Smith, Trans.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203981139 (Original work published 1945)
Turner, V. (1969). The ritual process: Structure and anti-structure. Aldine Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315134666