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No-Land: Life in 2223
No-Land: Life in 2223
Human civilization was born in the ocean. Science research shows that all lives including humans originated from the ocean. The future of human beings would be closely related to the ocean as well.
No-Land is a hypothetical underwater scenario in a parallel universe, sets in the situation of the disappearance of land.
Many forecasts show that in 2050, the rising seas will erase a large number of coastal cities. In 2223, the whole delta region and other coastal cities around the world begin to build No-Land, the underwater residential areas illustrate the combination of the future vision of the underwater world and evolved human civilization, where the human body in No –Land is under the premise when genetic modifications of human to have other animal’s physics become common.
Lei is designing characters in her experimental way of both physical and digital forms, towards a fashion performance film that illustrates the combination of the future vision of an underwater world and evolved human civilization.
No-Land is a hypothetical underwater scenario in a parallel universe, sets in the situation of the disappearance of land.
Many forecasts show that in 2050, the rising seas will erase a large number of coastal cities. In 2223, the whole delta region and other coastal cities around the world begin to build No-Land, the underwater residential areas illustrate the combination of the future vision of the underwater world and evolved human civilization, where the human body in No –Land is under the premise when genetic modifications of human to have other animal’s physics become common.
Lei is designing characters in her experimental way of both physical and digital forms, towards a fashion performance film that illustrates the combination of the future vision of an underwater world and evolved human civilization.
No-Land: Life in 2223
Moving Image
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In the year 2223, the evolved humans are starting to build ‘No-Land’, a hypothetical underwater residential area in a parallel universe, set in the situation of the disappearance of land. Lei invites the viewer to enter this fantastical world and meet three underwater citizens. Licht (appear as Lux in its virtual form) as your neighbour, Lacey as a landlord and collector, and Lachesis who runs a delivery service. The fashion performance film illustrates characters and their surroundings through the use of colours, materials, the form of their bodies, and methods of filming. Lei depicts the scenario using mixed techniques including digital experiments from character modelling to digital fashion creation, and physical making processes from fish leather tanning to analogue photography, to celebrate the malleability of future human identities.
Characters
-1008 Sunlight Zone - Licht / Lux
The physical form of Licht doesn't go out of the building often so the viewer meets Lux in the located virtual space of room -1008 in the Sunlight Zone. Licht decided to move to No.19 because of its affordable rent and large living space, while the rents on land are skyrocketing since the reduction of land area.
-1802 Twilight Zone - Lacey
Lacey is the second character that appears in its full body in the film <No-Land: Life in 2223> who owns a huge amount of apartments in the building. In the film, Lacey initiatively invites the viewer to its real room for a rent collection. Lacey is one of the first groups of people who entered No-Land and lived in -1802 in the Twilight Zone surrounded by cold-water coral reefs, which the home to more fish and other marine animals than the rest of the ocean combined, making Lacey having more advanced modification on the body, including colour-changing system from head to toes. Lacey’s look appears with a fish skin shadow play puppet in response to the Chinese shadow play puppetry, and cross-dressing theatre plays in East Asia.
Evening Lacey: Fish skin jacket with pleated trains, Pleated trousers and bodysuit
Fish skin shadow play puppets
Detachable headpieces
-201 Sunlight to Midnight Zone - Lachesis
Lachesis lives in -201 in the sunlight zone. It always covers its body because its job of delivery service requires a long distance of journey in a short time, therefore no one knows what it looks like. Lachesis goes on land and also beyond the Twilight zone for special delivery.
Construction 2223
Fish Skin Nails and Gloves
The Viewer – A first person perspective scene to lead the viewer entering No-Land
Metahumans – Characters drafted in Metahuman creator to visualise characters before they enter No-Land
