Human theme park
众众乐园
Human Theme Park (2019) is an interactive video installation that explores the cyclical relationship between viewing and being viewed by displacing the roles of spectator and spectacle. The work draws on a common practice in tourist sites across China, where visitors are photographed in front of green screens and later inserted into idealized souvenir images. This artificial construction of memory and place becomes a conceptual foundation for the piece.
Within the video space, footage of tourists I collected at major landmarks in Beijing is juxtaposed with real-time video of gallery visitors captured by surveillance cameras. The result is a continuously regenerating “paradise” made entirely of tourists—there is no scenery, only people as spectacle. In this loop, viewers become aware that while they watch others, they too are being watched and inserted into the same visual system, revealing the self-referential and consumable nature of contemporary image culture.
《众众乐园》（2019） 是一个交互式影像装置，通过置换观者与景观的位置，营造一种观看与被观看循环往复的体验。作品引用了在景区中常见的绿幕拍照机制——许多旅游景点会让游客站在绿幕前拍摄，再合成进一张理想化的“纪念照”中。这种人为构建的图像现实，也构成了本作的概念基础。 在影像空间中，我将北京各大景点拍摄的游客素材，与现场摄像头实时记录的观众影像并置，创造出一个由游客构成、持续生成的“乐园”。在这里，没有自然风景，只有游客本身成为景观。装置让观众在观看他人时意识到自己的形象也正被并置、观看，从而揭示出当代景观消费中的自我投射与被观看性。