GMU:Being a Unicellular Organism/Passion Asasu: Difference between revisions

“SEXx (Social Expectations of Women)” is a project that reflects on the social norms of woman oppression which targets to point out issues that women are usually being judged and evaluated their values from their expressions of desire and behaviours especially when it comes to SEX.  In order to engage people understandings and make them indulge into the pool of those issues, the project creates an environment for visitors by using mixed media such as photography, installation and videography, for the audiences to experience the hidden issues that women face in the society.

The project is inspired by the beautiful living form of Physarum Polysephalum (Slime Mould), an intelligent unicellular organism that can find the shortest path to access their food and avoid harmful environments.  The visual act of slime moulds searching for food does not only portray the freedom of their desire for food, but also manifest the power of expression and decisiveness regardless any conditions. The intrigued pattern of slime moulds when hunting for food influenced me to look deeper into the possibility of our new social norms. What if we, women, can finally express ourselves freely without being judged or evaluated, how pleasant of life could it be?

Before cracking the core of the norms, I firstly want to peel the shell by allowing us, everyone, to understand the difficulties of limited expression by using slime moulds and putting them into a controlling environment which firmly against their nature. Then, I observed their struggling patterns of not being able to access their food and documented them by photography and time-lapse, in order to reflect the message of the project visually. The idea is to enhance the fact that we are diverse in every level and scale as well as other organisms, and we deserve to be able to exercise our passion and desire as free as possible. Otherwise, we will see this struggling pattern exists everywhere.

The project aims to increase sympathy, raise the standard of our social norms and slim down the inequality borders to allow women to express their desires and behaviours as equal as other genders because we are all simply just the products of the nature.