As a critique of Xu Bing's attempt to create a universal language with art, Lilith’s creative component was a wearable art piece. The work aimed to recreate the boundaries of each individual and to show, in an interactive way, how each individual in their daily life is integrated into the world through feelings rather than words. In the design, the artwork should initially be wrapped tightly around the viewer and be completely transparent, and as the viewer loosens it up a bit by touching the outside world, they can also write something (it can be anything) on it with the markers provided at the exhibition. With this process, more flexible contact with the outside world will become possible, and the information received (the words written on it) will be so much that it will be difficult to see the outside world. At a later stage, sensation will become more important than words to the viewer wearing the work. It will reflect each person's own boundaries in relation to the outside world. The emotions felt by contacting other people, the hugs given, are more universal than the language that may need to be translated to be understood.

Lilith Jiayao Gao

Project supervisor: Geoff Lehmann