No EXIT and you and me
2023
Type : Interactive screen based experience
Tools: Openframework
2023
Type : Interactive screen based experience
Tools: Openframework
Inspired by the philosophical play “NO EXIT AND THREE OTHER PLAYS” by Jean Paul Sartre in 1944, which illustrated Sartre's ideas about the look and the perpetual ontological struggle of being caused to see oneself as an object from the view of another consciousness. In the plot, three characters are brought to the same room in Hell, with no physical torture or punishment, at the end while they found out “Each of us will act as torturer of the two others.”, it is also where Sartre's famous phrase ”Hell is other people" comes from. We become aware of ourselves as subjects only when confronted with the gaze of the other and become aware of ourselves as objects. Sartre also gives a famous example of someone looking through a keyhole, to illustrate his concept of "The Look", in Being and Nothingness. When we are under the other’s sight, we can restricted with other’s idea of what we are. The true misery comes from the human inability to control the nature of one’s own existence.
“NO EXIT and you and me” tries to illustrate the battleground between the gaze of others and the self. Once the form is under the sight of the other, its form is constantly influenced by the “gaze” of others, with the forms being constructed by pieces of human flesh to create the abstraction form between human and non-human.
“NO EXIT and you and me” tries to illustrate the battleground between the gaze of others and the self. Once the form is under the sight of the other, its form is constantly influenced by the “gaze” of others, with the forms being constructed by pieces of human flesh to create the abstraction form between human and non-human.