2025
3D printed resin, spray paint, metal, PU mat, yoga bricks, video
200cm*200cm*150cm
What is the future of loneliness? In an era where connection has multiplied into an endless stream of the unreal, Post-Contact Gym imagines what happens when the body itself becomes an unreadable, untouchable container.
Set in a future oversaturated with virtual presence, where Generation Z has grown old and the next generations have forgotten even the simplest gestures of physical connection, this project proposes a training ground to relearn what was once instinctive.
Five devices transform familiar contact into retraining exercises in the gym—handshakes, waves, hugs performed as if for the first time. Each action becomes a glitch: a ritual both sincere and absurd, a rehearsal of intimacy long displaced by screens.
Post-Contact Gym asks whether, in the digital swarm of perfect communication, physical touch itself is reduced to distortion—an echo of presence that can no longer be trusted, yet still lingers as the last fragile proof we were ever here.
孤独的未来何在？在这个连接已演变为无尽虚幻洪流的时代，《后接触健身房》构想当身体本身成为不可解读、不可触碰的容器时会发生什么。故事设定在虚拟存在过度饱和的未来，Z世代已步入老年，而新生代甚至遗忘了最简单的肢体接触方式。这个项目提出了一处训练场，旨在重新学习曾经本能的肢体语言。五台设备将熟悉的接触转化为健身房里的再训练——握手、挥手、拥抱，如同初次体验般重新演练。每个动作都化作故障信号：既真诚又荒诞的仪式，是屏幕早已取代的亲密关系的排练。《后接触健身房》发问：在完美沟通的数字洪流中，肢体接触本身是否已沦为扭曲的残影——那是无法信任的存在回响，却仍作为我们曾在此处的最后脆弱凭证而徘徊不去。
"I grew up online. Maybe you did too."
I was a socially anxious kid, always a little unsure of where my body belonged. I found safety behind the screen.
I learned to connect through digital interfaces. I spoke to strangers via screens, performed presence via pixels.
But over time, that flatness became a limit. I began to crave friction, texture, awkwardness……
……something tactile, something real enough to push back……
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