Jiaqi Song
About
Jiaqi Song is a multidisciplinary designer delving into environmental themes, using Nature-Based Critique Reflection to analyze and reflect on human behavior through patterns in nature, highlighting human arrogance regarding our knowledge and capabilities. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and is now based in London after graduating from her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
An Imagination of Shadow is a video installation using the dinosaur Sinosauropteryx as a starting point explore the relationship between human and unknown. Seeking to reconsider our understanding of unobservable things and explore the relationship between truth and imagination. Showing the paradox of imagining Sinosauropteryx’s true appearance. With the conclusion: We will never see the truth, we can only see the shadow of it.
A Person Missing the Past is an installation that uses the ancient magnetic declination (pelomagetism) as an analogy to illustrate people’s relationship with memories of the past. Show both the positive side and negative side of nostalgia.People who miss the past are likened to a stone with ancient magnetism. Despite the passage of time, its magnetic declination continues to orient towards the past. Over time, this deviation from the current magnetic field increases progressively. This project aims to invite the audience to rethink people’s relationship with memories, it could be the path that takes us back to the past and also disconnect us from the present time.
The Paradox of the Clam is an interactive installation that explores the ethical dilemma of using animals in scientific research. The installation presents this paradox from a neutral perspective, to show the dilemma: should humans end the life of this 500-year-old clam to determine its accurate age ? Upon completing this work, I conclude that whether we choose to kill the clam or not, we will never truly uncover the truth of Clam Ming. Humans often arrogantly assume that we have the capability to make decisions for other species and believe that we are intelligent enough to comprehend how nature functions. However, in reality, we lack the opportunity to fully understand the truths of nature. Through this installation, I aim to prompt the audience to recognise the need for awe and reverence towards nature, critically examining human presumptions about our own capability in nature.
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