#rotation #mechanical motion #looping systems #guided movement

#circulation #repetition

Friedrich Nietzsche – Eternal Recurrence

“History may not be linear progress, but repetition”

Looking for other art works about cycles of consumption, desire, pleasure… Time goes on, but the Earth rotating, water recycle system..things keep moving yet structurally stuck/ rotating.

Consumer culture, commodified happiness and the feeling of “living in a bubble.” Like scrolling endlessly, shopping for pleasure, or participating in entertainment systems. Comfort, softness and playfulness function as a kind of trap, make people stuck… etc

🐾Exhibition Space and Route Design——Physically Embody The Loop

Drawing on Claire Bishop’s discussion of participatory structures, where the viewer is not merely a spectator but an active component of the work, this project treats the audience as part of the exhibition system itself. The circular route ensures that visitors do not simply observe circulation, but enact it. By walking through the loop, they become structurally embedded in the exhibition’s logic of repetition.

I am interested in rotation not only as physical movement, but as a structural condition of contemporary life. We are constantly moving, scrolling, consuming, working, yet often feel stuck within invisible systems.

(Concept sketch for exhibition layout, sketched by Xiaobao Ye)

I am developing this into an exhibition structured around a one-way circular route. The audience would physically move in loops, guided through rotating installations and looping video works, mirroring systems of consumption and desire. My exhibition asks all the audience one question: Are we progressing, or simply circulating?