Yifei Wang

In my work “Domestication: As we live in a Zoo”, I create a multisensory experience using steel, grass seeds, melted sugar, , the Smell of coffee and tobacco, and the sound of loosen strings old violin. From a postcolonial Chinese perspective, I inspired on Foucault’s theory of “disciplinary power “and George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” .I come up with the ideas of the “socialized animal” and “domestication”.

By combining industrial materials with natural growth, I use the reshape between steel and growing grass to represent the domestication relationship between nature and industrial, as a metaphor for the way social power structures domesticate human beings. I try to make the audience think. “when domestication becomes gentle, Even sweet and more invisible Could we able to recognize it—or have we already become socialized animals?”