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HerVerse
Climactic Moment｜VR Experience Still
Concept
HerVerse above all, is my feminist absurdist narrative of gender dynamics in Chinese online society—embedded in a film version of a virtual reality experience that overwhelms its viewers with intense sensory overloads.
HerVerse above all, is my feminist absurdist narrative of gender dynamics in Chinese online society—embedded in a film version of a virtual reality experience that overwhelms its viewers with intense sensory overloads.
Environment | Virtual Landscape
The environment of HerVerse is a surreal gallery space, where every element—organic, feminine landscapes, reactive soundscapes, and explicit visuals—symbolizes the gendered dynamics of power, the gaze, and societal expectations. The environment unfolds across four interconnected levels, all accessed via a central elevator:
Each level’s organic feminine forms, reactive soundscapes, and glitch-infused visuals continuously reshape and disorient the audience—driving the experience toward its final system “crash.”
The environment of HerVerse is a surreal gallery space, where every element—organic, feminine landscapes, reactive soundscapes, and explicit visuals—symbolizes the gendered dynamics of power, the gaze, and societal expectations. The environment unfolds across four interconnected levels, all accessed via a central elevator:
- The Gallery (Main Level) – Visitors receive an initial invitation into the work’s visual and auditory atmosphere.
- Hall of Sins – Descending by elevator, immersive installations and projections begin to expose the structures of gendered oppression.
- Mother Matrix – A further descent places viewers inside a bio-mechanical network, symbolizing how societal expectations “weave” and constrain feminine identity.
- HerVerse (Deep Core) – At the bottom, pleasure and chaos collide, embodying feminine resistance and catharsis against social gender constraints.
Each level’s organic feminine forms, reactive soundscapes, and glitch-infused visuals continuously reshape and disorient the audience—driving the experience toward its final system “crash.”
Audiences are forced to forfeit their agency in this disorienting world and interact with its elements. The landscape, off-kilter and unpredictable, increases the discomfort of the participant. The environment itself is appalled at the voyeurism inherent in the viewer’s presence.
Platform Critique
The only acceptable performance is disappearance.
This is the algorithmic theater of online platforms: structured for discourse, sustained by spectacle. What’s absurd is that even self-expression becomes scripted. You’re not really sharing—you’re optimizing. You don’t participate—you’re processed. The rules of engagement aren’t written, but they are enforced. Speak with certainty and you’re arrogant. Defend yourself and you’re hysterical. Stay silent and you’re complicit.
Genesis & Presentation
And so, HerVerse was born—not as revenge, but as a rendering. A looping, glitching, gasping rendering of the absurd roles we are forced to play. This is my version of that loop: digitized, disoriented, and re-performed until the system crashes.
Format: A 6-minute VR film, recorded in Unity and viewable with a VR headset, capturing the climactic moment you saw above.
Exhibition Documentation
In VR Stills
Stills of “The Gallery”
Stills of “Hall of Sins”
Stills of “Mather Matrix”
Stills of “HerVerse”