AP collaborated with the UCCA Group’s UCCA Lab to undertake the spatial design and production of UCCA Lab’s inaugural art project, “Detachment: Audio-Visual Interactive Experience Space.” The dynamic curation of the exhibition is jointly created by new media artist: Miao Jing and the band: Mandarin. The art project focuses on the band members’ personal insights into “detachment,” and their visual expression of the concept. Detaching from the urban revelry, it explores the mysticism found in the gap between real and virtual life.

The exhibition, themed “Urban Remains,” focuses on how to rhythmically escalate the exhibition experience towards a climax. The entire exhibition hall is a dark space, divided into three areas: the foyer, a tunnel, and the main exhibition area. Visitors are led from stillness to motion through a labyrinth-like tunnel into the main hall, ending in a large space dedicated to displaying the most important art installation of the exhibition. Therefore, the tunnel becomes the emotional focal point of the space design.

We boldly imagined this place as urban remains, witnessing a performance involving new human and new species. Visitors arrive and enter the foyer where they can hear the performance but cannot tell where it is. We imagine the tunnel as a spaceship landing on the remains. The scattered artworks are hints of the future, peering through the spaceship’s portholes at the world of remains. The pulsing timeline takes us from the past to the present and into the future… Finally, we arrive at the main exhibition area where the band Mandarin’s performance is underway, with music, lights, new humans, all objects and lives reveling…

Therefore, with design, we have responded to the above concepts one by one. Artist Miao Jing’s static works are loaded into the spaceship, the opened portholes are the means to explore the world of remains, and the pulsating timeline on the walls is the spatial installation designed by AP… Join us! For the urban revelry above the remains.

活络与UCCA集团旗下UCCA Lab合作，担纲了UCCA Lab首期艺术项目——“抽离（detachment）音画交互体验空间”的空间设计和制作。此次展出的动态策展由新媒体艺术家苗晶以及乐队mandarin普通人共同创作，艺术项目着眼于乐队成员对于“抽离”的切身感悟，并将其具象化表达。从都市的狂欢中超脱出来，探寻游走于真实与虚拟生活间隙中的迷思。

本次展览以“都市遗骸”为概念，设计的重点在于如何有节奏地将展览体验一步一步推向高潮。整个展厅是一个暗空间，分为序厅、隧道、主展区三个区域，通过一条迷宫似的隧道将观众由静到动引入主展厅，并在最后释放一个大空间用于展示此次展览中最重要的艺术装置，因此隧道成为了本次空间设计中制造情绪的重点。

我们大胆地将这里想象成一座都市遗骸，正在上演着一出由新人类和新物种参与的表演。大家来到这里，进入序厅只可听见演出的声音但不知在何处。我们想象这个隧道像是降落于遗骸上方的飞船，散落着的艺术作品是对未来的暗示，通过飞船内的小窗“窥探”遗骸世界，跳动的时间带我们从过去走到现在，再走入未来……最终我们来到了一片空地，mandarin乐队的表演在进行，有音乐、灯光、新人类，所有的物体和生命都在狂欢……

于是我们用设计对以上设想一一做出了回应，艺术家苗晶的静态作品被载入飞船之中，开设的小窗是探寻遗骸世界的途径，墙面上跳动的时间是活络策划设计的空间装置…加入我们吧！在遗骸之上的都市狂欢。