Leqing Zeng

"Tide"

Section MS9, Daryan Knoblauch

Keywords: nature

This project gives resolution to the eerie, forlorn and often surreal condition of “liminal spaces”, which derive from internet aesthetics that instrumentalize thresholds of daily rituals such as corridors, passages or other elements of transit to negotiate privacy and publicness depicting highly fluctuating urban artefacts most commonly showed in an empty state. It is therefore that the installation and video work within MS9 aims to encounter how those space are shaped by tides of people floating through those spaces without ever stopping and actually picturing where they are. Tides are an inevitable derivative of urbanization. The sovereignty of people's space undergoes a day-to-day 'pendulum' shift and reorganization, with people congregating in large numbers in the city's main commercial areas during working hours, and then migrating to residential areas after work. This puts people in a state of liminality through the drastic change of their own space in a short period of time. In MS9, I explore the existential value of such " liminal spaces " in helping people to divide their work and life.