WANG YIRAN

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YOUR LAND, MY LAND

乐园

Color Digital Animation with Sound

1280 x 720

2021

Disneyland, as an entity of virtual illusion, makes people believe that Disney is different from the outside world. It is a world with absolute positivism, naivety, dreamy happiness, painlessness and innocence.However, in the description of Baudrillard’s immersive sequence of Disneyland, it is already more real than the real, reversing the real and the illusion, and even concealing the real existence. The collective joy makes the collective drowse in the homogenous bubble of entertainment and fantasy, giving up self-consciousness and the negation of others. I regard amusement parks as an epitome and metaphor of China’s rapid development over the past two decades. At the cost of morality and conscience, people numbly indulge in the carnival of rapid development and huge profits. Why do we like theme parks? The design of the amusement park uses algorithms to quantify human desires to the highest degree, satisfying our dream to become the protagonist in the fairy tale, so as to obtain redemption and salvation. Do almost cult-like dances and movements declare freedom? Or is it obedience after being disciplined? A big hand falls from the sky, its heavy color and huge volume seem to symbolize the omnipresence of political or technological power.

迪士尼作为一个虚拟幻象的实体呈现,让人们去相信迪士尼与外界不同,是一个拥有绝对的积极,天真烂漫,梦幻幸福,无痛,无罪的世界。然而迪士尼乐园在鲍德里亚的拟真序列的描述中,它已然是比真实看起来更真实,颠倒着真实与虚幻甚至遮蔽了真实的存在。集体式的欢乐使集体昏睡在娱乐与幻想的同质化泡沫里,放弃了自我意识与他者的否定。我将游乐园视作过去二十多余年迅速发展的缩影与隐喻。人们以道德与良知为代价,麻木地沉迷追逐于极速发展与暴利的狂欢之中。我们为何喜欢主题游乐园?游乐园的设计用算法最高程度的量化着人类的欲望,满足我们渴望在虚拟故事中成为主角,从而获得救赎与拯救的梦。近乎邪教式的舞蹈与动作是否宣告着自由?抑或是被规训后的服从?一只大手从天而降,其沉重的颜色与巨大的体积似乎象征着掌握着权力的政治或技术无处不在。


IDEATION

The design of the character is inspired by a 20th-century sculpture master Alberto Giacometti. His sculptures reflect the widespread fear and loneliness of people after World War II. The figures he sculpted are thin, tall, and alienated but powerful. I borrowed the characteristics of his characters and tried to use fragile, ant-like characters to allude to the spiritual predicament of people in the contemporary age. (Technology, social media, unrestrained stare)

The banner drawn on the plane is derived from the slogans of underdeveloped areas in China. The slogan is easy to understand, rhyming, absurd, brainwashing, and agitating which make it highly contagious in terms of emotions and actions. The contents are cruel and inhuman just like living in an age of despotic dictatorship. The slogan is huge in size and bright in color, ubiquitous as if it were public hints and mass hypnosis. We all think this is the truth and see it as a belief. We often do this, but we have no idea why.


CREDITS

MUSIC

“《ONLY YOU》粤语(大话西游电影插曲) — 罗家英”

MODELS

“Flag” – BY ManySince910

“Walt Disney Worlds Hollywood Studios Entrance” BY Walt Digital World

“Snowy Mountain” BY James Lucas

“Snowy Mountain – Terrian” BY artfromheath

“Snowy Mountain” BY Helindu

“Metal Fence” BY Vilitay