Rui Bao
MA work
MA work
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Hearing is Seeing, Rui Bao 2014
Reconstructed stethoscope
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Hearing is Seeing 2, 2014
Reconstructed stethoscope
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Hearing is Seeing 3, Rui Bao 2014
Reconstructed stethoscope
Photographer: Rui Bao
Sense: Between
What if we cannot see?
What if we cannot touch?
Ears should not just let us hear sounds. They would be the second pair of eyes to let us visualise things or another layer of the skin to let us touch objects and surfaces around us. This collection explores the concept of cross-senses, with a specific focus on the condition synethesia. As a non-synesthete, I attempt to capture what it is like to experience synethesia: a neurological condition where stimulus to one sense can affect one or more of the other senses. Also, different types of sensorial organs. This collection aims to reveal the limits of hearing sense and challenge our senses to perceive things from a trans-perceptional perspective through a series of wearable objects.
Hearing is Seeing.
Hearing is Touching.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Humanities
Programme
MA Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, 2014
Specialism
Jewellery & Metalwork
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Contact
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+44 7447915576
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As a wearable-objects designer and maker, I am keen on the relation between those wearable objects and the human body itself. I am especially interested in the area of human perceptions. The topic of my current research project tends to focus on the concept of sending, receiving and exchanging different types of sensory information, while investigating the relation between each of them. Specifically, I explore the uncommon neurological condition, synethesia . In addition, my work poses the question, how would people observe objects if they lost one or more sensing abilities? I would like to question this in another way, drawing people's attention towards the trans-perceptional phenomenon, and invite them to perceive an unconventional scene to enrich their sensory impacts through a collection of wearable objects.Â
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Degrees
- BA Silversmithing & Jewellery, Glasgow School of Art, 2012
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Experience
- Teaching internship, Glasgow School of Art, 2014; Assistant tutor, Raising & Forging project, Jewellery & Metalwork Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC (Mar), 2013; Convenor, Peter Dormer Lecture 2013, University of the Arts, London, 2013; Convenor, Peter Dormer Lecture 2012, Grayson Perry: Turn up on time, be nice and put in the hours, University of the Arts, London, 2012
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Exhibitions
- A Stone’s Throw Away, Susannah Lovis Jewellers, Burlington Arcade, London, England, UK, 2014 ; Work-in-progress Show, Royal College of Art, 2014; Korean Jewellery Fair 2013, COEX Mall, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea, 2013 ; Virtual Insanity, The Goldsmiths’ Centre, London, England, UK, 2013; Jewellery catwalk, The Jewellery Show Birmingham 2013, NEC Birmingham, England, UK, 2013; Work-in-progress Show, Royal College of Art, 2013; Effe Kijken 5 / Let’s Have a Look V: The BIGGER Picture, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2012; New Designers 2012 (Part I), Business Design Centre, London, England, UK, 2012; Degree Show, Glasgow School of Art, 2012; GOLD, AuBoutique Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2011; Affectivity, Atrium Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2011; Pace Maker, Atrium Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 2010
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Awards
- Finalist, Accessories Category, International Talent Support Competition, 2014; Second prize, British Jewellers’ Association 2013 Jewellery Show Award, 2013; Silver, 12th Korean International Jewellery Design Contest, 2013; Bram Stoker Medal (for the best imaginative work of the year), Glasgow School of Art, 2012