Wenhui Jiang

Wenhui Jiang is a Chinese designer and artist, now based in London. She completed her undergraduate studies in Product Design. And after that, she started her MA in Information Experiment Design at the Royal College of Art.

Sensory experiences in everyday life are central to her practice. Most of the time, humansw are dominated by an ocular-centric paradigm: a vision-generated, vision-centred interpretation of knowledge, truth, and reality. Wenhui explores how senses other than sight affect the viewer's experience in space. Her work aims to locate the subtle bonds between people, objects, and the surrounding environment. Her research poses the question, How might we create an immersive environment replicating some of the positive effects of exposure to nature?

Breathing is an essential connection to nature. There is intimacy between the human body and the atmosphere. Through our breath, we are constantly connecting with the world.

I made this installation in order to allow the audience to feel the breathing connection we have with the surrounding world, experiencing the many other living and non-living things that share our planet.

The interactions within the piece draw upon and and amplify the patterns and forces of the wind, the sun, and the weather: the air has no borders. It belongs to no one, yet gives itself freely to all.

The Soul of Breath is an interactive installation making felt the invisible connection between humans and the natural environment, through an amplification of breath.

Viewers are invited to blow into the microphone, and the fabric reacts according to the participant’s breathing cycle. The sound changes frequency depending on the breath as well as any sound in the environment, including wind.

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installation, sculpture, moving image

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2*2.5m

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In Collaboration with:

yujingzhang2020@163.com

Photographer ：Yujing Zhang

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image,sound

The Soul of Breath / Experience, media item 1

Viewers come into the space and blow into the microphone.
While the PE fabric reacts to the participants’ breath.
Then the sound changes in rhythm and tone.

The three parts link and interact with each other.

Experience Experimental Installation Interaction Sound Art Visual Language

Microphone – It transports the audience into the world of the breathing.

Polyethylene (PE) – This part offers the viewer a magical place to merge breath, sound, and nature, challenging our perception.

Directional Speaker – In the installation space, the sense of hearing will be the first sense to be touched. They will hear the breathing of the space generated by the computer and the surrounding environments.

Research and Design notes

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO2HJs0k=/?share_link_id=92191996577

Website

https://www.wenhjiang.com/work-in-process

Animism Breathing Communication Connections Ecosystems Experience Installation Interaction Nature Non-human Participatory art Sound

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