Human.Under.Going: Embracing Our Whole SelvesHuman.Under.Going is a warm, interactive experience that invites you to explore something we all face: how to love our own wonderful complexity while also accepting that others' intentions don't always match our own. It creates a safe space to discover self-acceptance in a world that's often too quick to judge.
In this exhibition, the visitor was always welcome to embrace the artwork, though the artwork, depending on their personal In this unique exhibition, visitors were always welcome to embrace the human artwork. However, these living performers—true to authentic human experience—wouldn't always reciprocate if they were engaged in their own personal h.u.g. (human.under.going) moment. This unpredictable interaction mirrored real-life connections, where our desire for connection sometimes meets another's temporary unavailability.experience at the moment, would not always hug back, if occupied in their own h.u.g.
The human artwork's focus on their own experience—sometimes making them unable to return embraces—beautifully mirrors how we often misread others in daily life. This deliberate design element demonstrates how we tend to interpret others' actions as directly related to us, when in reality, they might simply be processing their own unrelated emotions or "going through their own thing." This gentle reminder helps visitors recognize the gap between perception and reality in human connections.
Moving from interactive art installations to the expressive power of movement, the next project explored the translation between our synesthetic relationship between language and movement.