Jiayi Chen (Kelly)

Turrets of Catharsis: the stifled voice …… illumined

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third shot of the night
humming the bitter along with sighs
drown sorrow in the wine
and let it melt with the ice

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Japanese society associates cautiousness with discipline and strict hierarchy, which accustoms people to constrain their real thoughts and expressions. Unconsciously, the suppressed emotion results in suicides, depression and other mental problem of Tokyo dwellers.

Obscure comedians, a representative community of the stifled public, will act as facilitators to help other constrained urbanists to be released. Turrets of Catharsis empowers them by providing space and broadcasting medium to express their stifled thoughts and pressure from mannered routines. The project intends to stimulate the desire of expression through extreme scale, textures of materials as well as dark and light.

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the voices here
penetrate the stiff haze that envelops the city

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