Category: Positions through Triangulating

From Online Anonymity to Material Presence This research phase expands on my investigation of the emotional paradox in contemporary Chinese youth culture, focussing primarily on the tension between suppressed inner cries and outward displays of passive compliance—the former frequently released through anonymous digital spaces, the latter manifesting on the surface. Young people in Chinese online…

Memes, Emotion, and the Limits of Expression In the age of widely used digital communication, memes have become one of the most popular ways to express emotions. They spread more quickly than words and are frequently used in online communities as a shorthand for group emotions like humour, annoyance, tiredness, and despair. However, a basic…

These are the three memes that I picked under the buddha-like and lying-flat culture context. They share the emotions either disappointment or screaming inside.  So I took memes out of the fast-scrolling online environment and transforming them into large-scale printed artefacts. People must confront it. I used transparent question cards beside each print.These cards asked…