
RudeFish
鲁 德 菲 西
Shana Moulton:
The Anxious Body and Visual Misalignment in Viewing

When constructing the viewing structure of Who’s There?, I looked closely at how Shana Moulton uses low-budget materials and crude effects to create a visual state suspended between collapse and self-repair. Her character Cynthia is both a fragile extension of herself and an emotional vessel the audience can project onto—through her, we can experience helplessness, failure, shame, all wrapped in absurdity and lightness.
What fascinated me most was her strategy of making the domestic space feel like another dimension. She uses pink bedrooms, air purifiers, wall decals, fans—cheap, everyday objects—to stage a world that hovers between dream and breakdown: soft yet eerie, familiar yet unhinged. In Who’s There?, I tried to borrow this same atmospheric method—not building a high-concept explanatory structure, but instead combining lace, metal, and a low projection rig into something that feels off, emotionally.
What I learned from her is this: you don’t have to “make yourself clear,” but you can make your confusion palpable. That awkward, blurry, half-laugh-half-cry rhythm is exactly what I try to activate through my installation and AI-generated imagery.