Their Memorial (2022)
Their Memorial is a VR scenography highlighting the environmental issue of animal endangerment in Australia by offering extinct and endangered animals a memorial and envisioning a second future life for them in a VR world. The work includes three virtual worlds that the participant enters linearly, and each one expands more in terms of completeness. The work uses a combination of 360-degree video and VR world construction to create a time capsule between the past, present and future. In each world, the participant’s perspective switches from a VR viewer to an extinct, soon-to-be-buried animal, which then becomes a spirit in the last world.

Chenfei Xiao. VR installation view of Their Memorial scene 1, 2022. Virtual Reality.

Chenfei Xiao. VR installation view of Their Memorial scene 2, 2022. Virtual Reality.

Chenfei Xiao. VR installation view of Their Memorial scene 3, 2022. Virtual Reality.

Chenfei Xiao. VR installation view of Their Memorial scene 3, 2022. Virtual Reality.