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Soft Game


by Emi Sun 



Soft Game is a collection of playable garments that explores concepts of personal and shared space. When we were young, we read those interactive game books, and when we grew up, we played video games. When I transform familiar gaming landscape elements from book pages and screens such as houses, windows and roads into real accessories and garments on a participant’s body, playing games becomes a physical challenge. This collection challenges the cognitive boundary of one's own body and its potential relationship with others- players are forced to make physical contact with themselves and others in new ways. Either single-player or multiplayer, regardless of the format, these soft games ask the participant to re-evaluate the concept of distance and space through a playful experience.

《柔软的游戏》是一组可玩的服装系列。该系列在着重探索人与自己,以及人与他人之间的距离与空间的概念。小时候,我们会看那种可以互动的游戏书,长大了我们玩电子游戏。而我将这些大家熟悉的游戏舞台元素,例如房子,窗户和马路,从书页和屏幕上转移到了身体上。这时,玩这些游戏就变得不那样得心应手了。玩家不得不以新的方式去抚摸自己或触碰他人,无论选择单人游戏或多人游戏任意模式,这些柔软的游戏都能使参与者通过一种好玩的方式重新评估和认知距离和空间的概念。













Emi Sun (Yining Sun/孙一宁) is a general fine arts major with a minor in  animation. She is an interactive artist who focuses on wearable sculpture and animation. Sun makes artworks that provoke interaction, inviting participants to challenge the boundaries between playfulness and seriousness. Her projects are based on meaningful aspects of life’s difficulties. 


Christopher Hall, Photographer
Wen Yi Su, Photographer
Sophie Ng, Model
Aaron Mack, Model
Xinru Du, Model
Jingshi Liang, Model
Yaxin Tu, Model
Chuqiao Li, Model
Emi Sun, Model