Phantom Dinning
幻象饗宴
-Team work with BiOVE計畫支持：韓國百樂達斯（天堂）文化基金會
selected by Paradise Cultural Foundation Art Prize 2025
supported by Paradise Art Lab
Phantom Dining (2025) is an eXtended Reality (XR)-based participatory installation that reconfigures the act of dining as a site of transformation. Wearing VR headsets, participants move through five stages of meal preparation around physical tables and objects. The ingredients appear vividly alive yet do not truly exist. The utensils, designed for bodily engagement, invite participants to act upon themselves.
As interaction unfolds, participants gradually transform into “phantom animals” — human, yet no longer fully human. This perceptual shift generates phantom sensations that estrange the familiar act of eating. Dining becomes unstable, revealing the hidden dynamics of ingestion, power, and desire.
Within a space where reality and virtuality coexist, the boundary between eater and eaten dissolves. Life, appetite, vulnerability, and consumption become entangled. Rather than offering moral judgment, the work creates an embodied field of tension, allowing participants to inhabit the ethical and existential dilemmas embedded in contemporary practices of animal consumption.
Performative Videography: https://youtu.be/dtvtg88n3Q4
VR In-App: https://youtu.be/PH5MT5qCPj8
As interaction unfolds, participants gradually transform into “phantom animals” — human, yet no longer fully human. This perceptual shift generates phantom sensations that estrange the familiar act of eating. Dining becomes unstable, revealing the hidden dynamics of ingestion, power, and desire.
Within a space where reality and virtuality coexist, the boundary between eater and eaten dissolves. Life, appetite, vulnerability, and consumption become entangled. Rather than offering moral judgment, the work creates an embodied field of tension, allowing participants to inhabit the ethical and existential dilemmas embedded in contemporary practices of animal consumption.
Performative Videography: https://youtu.be/dtvtg88n3Q4
VR In-App: https://youtu.be/PH5MT5qCPj8
這是一件以 XR（延展實境）為基礎的參與式裝置作品。觀眾配戴 VR 頭戴式顯示器後，將在現實餐桌與虛擬影像交織的空間中，進入一個分為五個階段的「用餐準備」過程。桌面上的食材看似鮮活，卻並不存在；而桌上的器具則為觀者的身體量身設計，邀請其親自操作。
隨著操作的推進，參與者逐步轉化為「幻象動物」——既是人類，卻又不再完全屬於人類。透過這種身體轉化，觀者將經驗一種帶有幻覺性的觸感，使原本熟悉的用餐行為變得陌生，並揭示吞食與被吞食之間潛藏的權力與感知結構。在現實與虛擬交錯的場域中，「食者」與「被食者」的界線逐漸模糊，生命、慾望與攝取行為之間的糾纏也被具體化。
本作品讓觀眾以身體進入一個倫理張力場。在當代動物食用文化中，消費與存在、罪惡與存活、欲望與同理往往並存而未被正視。《幻象食桌》試圖創造一個沉浸式經驗，使「吞食的倫理困境」不再只是理性的思辨，而成為一種難以迴避的身體感受。
動作影像紀錄: https://youtu.be/dtvtg88n3Q4
動作影像紀錄中文版：https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e2aNIOq9L2bpQiKRPjKp43gdDKwX8BBh/view?usp=drive_link
VR 內部視角: https://youtu.be/PH5MT5qCPj8
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Awarded the Paradise Cultural Foundation Art Prize 2025
Exhibition at the Paradise Art Lab Festival, Seoul, 2025
Exhibited at the Hangzhou Tech Art Festival, China, 2025
Exhibited at the Goyang Cultural and Arts Festival, Korea, 2025
Exhibition at the Paradise Art Lab Festival, Seoul, 2025
Exhibited at the Hangzhou Tech Art Festival, China, 2025
Exhibited at the Goyang Cultural and Arts Festival, Korea, 2025