In this installation, you grab two controllers to drive a small 'cockroach-car' through a walled-in, ultra-filthy kitchen and bathroom set. Through a live FPV screen and a wild video guide by a 'Cockroach Goddess,' you stop looking down as a human and start looking up from the crumbs, experiencing a raw, unmasked reality that challenges our obsession with high-class perfection.
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Abstract
In contemporary society, "nobility," "high quality life style," and "flawless beauty" are heavily institutionalized concepts used by the elite class to over-package and distance themselves from raw reality.
This pursuit of artificial perfection is like a hypocritical mask, causing humanity to turn a blind eye to its own animal nature and numbing its primal senses. “The More Crumbs, the Tastier” is an immersive mixed-media installation that wields pure, raw revulsion as a weapon to violently tear away this social mask, challenging the fragile fabric of high society through the ultimate symbol of rejection: the cockroach. The physical installation features a 2m x 1.5m narrative scenography of a filthy, domestic kitchen and bathroom, spaces stripped of their sanitized illusions to reveal a gritty, chaotic infrastructure of survival. Inside, participants operate an FPV-equipped "Roach-Vehicle," transcending their human stature to inhabit the ground-level gaze of a scavenger.Through the screen, discarded breadcrumbs and accumulated grime are magnified into a grand landscape. This interactive first-person experience forces participants into a state of sensory and psychological “dehumanization,” dominated by a fictional belief system known as the “Roachianity Cult” and its central deity, the Great Cockroach Goddess. Unlike the overly polished and fragile sense of identity of the human elite, the cockroach is utterly unpretentious. It does not disguise itself, nor does it hide or compromise; it is, in itself, a pure, indisputable, and unyielding reality. The installation compels viewers to “look up from the crumbs” rather than gaze down from a position of human superiority, thereby triggering an instinctive, visceral shudder, a primal awakening stripped of social constraints. Ultimately, the project presents the audience with a radical subversion of social philosophy: the meticulous refinement of high society is merely an artificial product of institutionalized systems, whereas the despised, indestructible cockroach possesses a primal, rugged vitality, one that is far more honest, powerful, and enduring than the former.
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