E25A: Chapter 5- Trip for Benefits

Monday, August 11, 2008

Chapter 5- Trip for Benefits

As we are moving along from Chapter 4, we shall hear about Chapter 5, our trip to get CE Points and experience. We head to this place called Old School and we saw some media installations being displayed along the way. The Media Installations were sponsered by Osage Art Galleries, which are from Beijing and the theme is Crosscurrents. But with the pictures that I have shot, I'm pretty sure you would be amazed to what we saw inside. So here they are.

This is what we saw when we entered. A media installation of a Red Army Soldier. If you notice from the pic that the face of the red army is not actually the one you would want to see. That's why if you go nearer, your face would be shown on the Red Army Soldier's Face. It's a camera trick.

This was what I was talking about. The original face. Now you see it.....

Now you don't. The new Face.

This gigantic structure you see here is called Musical Wheel. It was designed by Hong Kong Artist Kingsley Ng that alludes( refer directly) the interconnectedness of all things and the movements in the cosmos. In layman terms, it helps to connect to our body through the movements around the device. When you sit inside the strcuture, someone would pull the string behind the structure and you can feel the vibrations around the structure.

This is what you will see when you sit in the structure. You can not only feel the vibrations, but also hear the sound from the centre itself.

Taken from another angle

This robotic structure is called Tyrannosaurus Rex Of China, designed by Jin Jiangbo. When you come closer, the robot will move and will roar at you. We didn't know that when we saw this robot for the first time. The moment the robot roared at us, everyone around me screamed, and V and me freaked out. The robot is surrounded by a tracking device, so when we come around the device, the robot will move. Not only that, there are also pebble stones around the feet of the robot and there are wires and light bulbs fixed in some corners. That is because it can be scary to view if the room is dark.

And this is the device.

These are the pebble stones around the feet

Here is another media installation we saw. I forgot the name of it, but I do know that if you stand on top of it, you will see the man screaming and slowly faling down. But it depends on how you step on it and how long you take to step.

This was how we stepped on the machine

Ok, enough talking. Let me show you photos of us having fun.