Simulation of Friendship Dynamics (A Million Faces in My Life series)
2018
1 Minute 3 Seconds
Computer Generated Video, Digitally Composed Sound

link to vdeo: https://vimeo.com/mingmingchanel


Shown in Communion, organised and curated by Tornike Gognadze























































︎︎︎previous work

I made is map of friendships to help me get a clearer mind about my relationships as I moved from Berlin to Amsterdam for half an year in 2017.

In the video, I made these names float around me in a random order instead of letting them be still.

I collected selfies of all of my friends at that time and put them as material of the moving balls in the imaginary "bubble of time". As the bubble of time shrinks in size, the ball of friends move around me (the mannequin) and eventually disappear one by one. The disappearance of the ball of friends implies the ultimate death of our relationships. In the end, the mannequin (me) flies into the bubble of time, surrenders to the "intangible and irreversible force".

For me, I am the mannequin in the video. To explore this hidden meaning, I created the next work. I used text to write about what is going on in the mind of this mannequin.