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Cyberutopia
2020
As the mobile internet continues to evolve, we gradually distancing from the tangible reality around us, instead focusing our attention on the virtual world within our smartphone screens. We've become overly rely on media to interact with the world, to the point where truth and existence have been supplanted by symbols. We are gradually immersing ourselves in a "hyperreality" world composed of numerical codes, where the value of the real world is continually eroding, and we are gradually being shaped and manipulated by the media.
In this performance,Xiangyu wears a enclosed, retractable face mask for a day, completely isolating himselve from outside world. he can only obtaining information through the phone inside the mask. Xiangyu poses this question: If humanity were to rely entirely on media and enter a "hyperreal" world shaped by media, what would human life become in this state?
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