Emergence / 立春·发生

“Emergence” is a project created by the German space experience design team VAVE Studio and the Chinese digital art team InsPUMP. In an unnatural space, the natural phenomenon of peach blossoms blooming during the beginning of spring is highly abstracted and concentrated by the virtual vision and poetic programming, interpreting the phenomenon of "entropy reduction", and fighting the arrow of time with life.



We chose a slice of time – the beginning of spring and a slice space – Suzhou architecture, On the staggered line of the two slices, a new multi-dimensional space was created. We took the blooming of peach blossoms as the symbol of the beginning of spring. At the same time, we deconstructed and reconstructed the concept of classical gardens Suzhou and created an abstract Suzhou corridor with optical illusions in the screens around the space. In the physical space, we built a traditional Suzhou roof with tens of thousands of tiles, with a circular stage inlaid in the middle. In the new multi-dimensional space, thousands of peach petals are scattered on the roof, on the side of the stage, and behind the windows. We endowed the programming software with poetry and spirituality, and triggered dozens of blowers. After hundreds of tests, we can dynamically synchronize the petals in the virtual space and the physical space, and flow and dance with the rhythm of the music, cycle between order and disorder, growth and death, entropy increase and decrease.



We want to express the repeated alternation of entropy increase and decrease through the regular forward and reverse movements of the peach blossoms to imply the behavior of life against nature. Using programming software to synchronize virtual dynamics and physical dynamics perceptually is itself a kind of “entropy reduction" work. The entire visual performance puts the audience in a universe of "entropy", using every pore to perceive the magic of life.