The House of Insomnia

Title: The House of Insomnia

Media：VR

Year: 2018

The House of Insomnia is a memory palace in the future virtual world designed for people who cannot sleep in the middle of the night and have nowhere to go. Here has no ending of the time, nor spatial boundaries. The only thing people need to do is wake up, keep dreaming.

The work adopts game language attempting to construct a fragmented narrative within an immersive environment to provide the perspective from “others”, which arouses attention to the future ecology and the reflection on human subjectivity. There are seven virtual scenes where participants’ different decisions and routes will generate diverse experiences, interpreting multiple narratives.

Installation view:

//Images below: The House of Insomnia (VR) @ The Fifth Suzhou Jinji Lake Biennale, China, 2019.