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{{Event
{{Event
|Event display name=Slippery People
|Event display name=Slippery People
|Date Start=2018-06-01
|Date Start=2018-06-01 12:00 AM
|Date End=2018-06-01
|Date End=2018-06-01 12:00 AM
|Total days adjusted=1
|Event description='new work by Diane Zhou''
|Event description=new work by Diane Zhou


In China and in Chinese households in the US, it’s common for hosts to offer guests house slippers after they remove their shoes. Slippers keep the feet warm and prevent qi (气) from leaking out of the soles of the foot. If the sole is the interface between body and universe, slippers serve the crucial role of cushioning them from unfamiliar, cold floors.
In China and in Chinese households in the US, it’s common for hosts to offer guests house slippers after they remove their shoes. Slippers keep the feet warm and prevent qi (气) from leaking out of the soles of the foot. If the sole is the interface between body and universe, slippers serve the crucial role of cushioning them from unfamiliar, cold floors.
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My Homepage, “Slippery People/滑人," presents a post-society setting where most human beings are nowhere to be found, but they’ve left behind their house slippers, which contain traces of their consciousness. The user can approach the slippers dotting the landscape and access bits of memories, which appear as images and text; the content ranges in scope, from personal photos to news of national events. Through the accumulation of these fragments, the multiple connected “rooms” hint at the contours of the past lives that existed there.
My Homepage, “Slippery People/滑人," presents a post-society setting where most human beings are nowhere to be found, but they’ve left behind their house slippers, which contain traces of their consciousness. The user can approach the slippers dotting the landscape and access bits of memories, which appear as images and text; the content ranges in scope, from personal photos to news of national events. Through the accumulation of these fragments, the multiple connected “rooms” hint at the contours of the past lives that existed there.
|Presented by=IRL,Welcome To My Homepage
|Event format=Exhibition
|Event medium=Installation; Mixed Media
|Associated Program=IRL; Welcome to my Homepage
|Presented by=IRL; Welcome To My Homepage
|Funded by=Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department
|Funded by=Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department
|Associated Program=IRL,Welcome to my Homepage
|Event artist=Diane Zhou
|Event artist=Diane Zhou
|Type of Event=Art
|Event admission type=Free
|Event ticket price=$0
|Airtable Record ID=recBwf94HR25D9VsR
|Is public=Yes
|Airtable Last Modified=2023-11-25 2:13 PM
|Is public=1
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Latest revision as of 10:07, November 26, 2023


Event Info
Date 06.01.18
Format
Medium
Admission Free


'new work by Diane Zhou

In China and in Chinese households in the US, it’s common for hosts to offer guests house slippers after they remove their shoes. Slippers keep the feet warm and prevent qi (气) from leaking out of the soles of the foot. If the sole is the interface between body and universe, slippers serve the crucial role of cushioning them from unfamiliar, cold floors.

But what is lost when nubbly toes and gnarled veins are snugly capped away? What happens when the contact point between body and universe is sealed over?

My Homepage, “Slippery People/滑人," presents a post-society setting where most human beings are nowhere to be found, but they’ve left behind their house slippers, which contain traces of their consciousness. The user can approach the slippers dotting the landscape and access bits of memories, which appear as images and text; the content ranges in scope, from personal photos to news of national events. Through the accumulation of these fragments, the multiple connected “rooms” hint at the contours of the past lives that existed there.