BetaHuman Museum and Archive

BetaHuman Museum & Archive is a digital museum dedicated to the exploration of humanity in the digital age in collaboration with Hyper Island students. The second exhibition was centered around the meaning of pride. 

As Content Developer students, we got the chance to work collaboratively in carrying out the exhibition, as creative teams of artists and a creative production team.

I was leading one of the creative teams that was to create and produce an immersive experience that would be part of this collective exhibition. We were set to transform physical space and use technology to create a set of phygital experiences that show the non-binary nature of pride as a human trait.

The artistic concept I’ve developed was around pride as a meditative process, pride as an expanding experience, pride as cloud≈waves that form and transform us within us.

We have designed this experience through an artistic process under four experiential lenses: mental, emotional, spiritual and social. This led to the development of our installation.

The waterfall symbolizes a strong action. Some of the vapor condenses into droplets. For this to happen, the parcel of air must be saturated, in other words, unable to hold all the water it contains in vapor form so it starts to condense into a liquid or solid form. This is the sensation we feel after the action we did starts forming into a feeling of pride, starts forming a cloud. A proud cloud?

Pride as a sensation feels uplifting. When it fills you, it evokes a bodily sensation of expansion.

When clouds meet they can either collide and cause a storm or peacefully merge, creating a new shape.

Sometimes though, a cloud slowly evaporates.

We all carry traces, particles, that can form a cloud, form pride, when activated appropriately. There is research suggesting that pride is something that evolves during a person’s life.

How is pride activated though?

Through creating this experience I also wanted to explore how re-evaluating and affirming personal proud moments can promote well-being. 

By creating space for meditating on prideful moments, can we let the emotion of pride arrive into presence again? 

Aware of its presence, can we consciously guide it to unite us with each other, rather than separate and divide us?

Can we lead its traces in a positive direction?

≈ pridescapes

Through a meditative process, we hold space for revisiting pride. 

A space where proud moments once were and can emerge again.

With every inhale, we uplift a memory of a proud sensation. 

Filling our chest and letting it expand into the present moment.

Here and now, pride is condensing, 

up to a point where it needs to be released.

As we exhale and release it into the collective space, 

it is up to us how it shapes our future behavior.

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