Heroic Moment - Prologue
2022 | Instruction, Silicone, Hydro Stone, Rigid Urethane, Packaging Bubbles, Prints, Dice, Game Table, Tablecloth, MDF wood
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Heroic Moment
- Prologue initiates the idea with a board game set
a half year ago and Heroic Moment concludes it with a mobile box that is
supposed to encapsulate the game set, reflecting my on-going research and
thinking on critical game theory, hero theory, and self-inquiry into my fluid
childhood perception of “hero”.
Modified based on Senet, Heroic Moment -
Prologue is a competitive board game between two players and requires the
players to perform a specific finger gesture in order to play. It is created in
2022.
My childhood close friend and I came up
with this finger gesture to satisfy our desire to play the role of something
greater, cooler, wilder than who we are, and something that can be acted and
interact with different environments yet still contains ourselves in it. Aging
from 9 to 14, I put my bizarre fantasy drawn from East Asian cultural products
into the self-directed theatre for myself being the only audience, imagery
involving a hero, monster, God, dragon, landscape, architecture, my success and
frustration in real life, and my imagination towards females. In these imagined
plays, I enjoy the simultaneous sensations of playing the role of a hero, while
looking at the person I am playing as a spectacle. My self-inquiry about this
feeling led me to an ancient Egyptian board game called Senet, which provides a
set of rules that enable similar kinds of interactions between two players and
observers.