SUSTAINABILITY + LIGHT ART
AIR QUALITY + COMMUNITY
RESILIENCE + KNOWLEDGE SHARING
What is Haiijaii Project?
Global site-specific art installation
Our global site-specific art installations value sustainability and the notion of giving a second life to everyday materials.
More than recycling
We aim to promote the practice of recycling beyond the act of putting items in the recycling bins. By breaking the single-use habit, the community is encouraged to participate in our sustainable methodology through art making, where they can install the preloved items to our structure and in turn help strengthen our installation at the same time.
Raising awareness
Based on different cities, we investigate their policy on air quality and use our installation to raise awareness of those issues through art.
Providing solutions
We are not only warning that the world needs help, we try to provide hands-on solutions to our guests so they can continue the journey on their own afterward. One of our set of solutions is to become more resilient against the climate. How to fight the heat, rebuild after a hurricane, grow vegetation with very little water...
About Us
We are a collective of international artists and designers.
Haiijaii Project first came about as 3 creatives, Adulaya Kim Hoontrakul (Curator), Ka Lun Karen Chan (Neon artist and multimedia designer), and Frederic Bussiere (Architect and Multimedia designer), got together to discuss the notion of air quality and carbon emission.
What is bad air? Is data enough to make people aware and react? Also, is the air quality index weaponized? Factual as it may be, many richer countries offset their carbon emission through buying power, leaving poorer countries with consistent data that categorizes them permanently as ‘polluted’.
We chose to communicate the idea of suffocation through light movement. Some may have sharp flashes, some may pulsate slower, emulating breathing patterns affected by pollution. The audience is invited to breathe along with the rhythm of the light to feel the urgency through the surrogate.
When the body is used to receive information, we believe the impact is greater. Through the natural act of breathing (Haiijaii means breath in Thai), the common act of survival, we hope to not only unite but to find that missing link that has created such a polarised world we live in today.
What is bad air? Is data enough to make people aware and react? Also, is the air quality index weaponized? Factual as it may be, many richer countries offset their carbon emission through buying power, leaving poorer countries with consistent data that categorizes them permanently as ‘polluted’.
We chose to communicate the idea of suffocation through light movement. Some may have sharp flashes, some may pulsate slower, emulating breathing patterns affected by pollution. The audience is invited to breathe along with the rhythm of the light to feel the urgency through the surrogate.
When the body is used to receive information, we believe the impact is greater. Through the natural act of breathing (Haiijaii means breath in Thai), the common act of survival, we hope to not only unite but to find that missing link that has created such a polarised world we live in today.
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