Deconstruction as a process and methodology
Demin Wang
Deconstruction is a way of thinking that is being used in our daily life. It is about how we understand a concept, or in another way, how we assign meaning to an object. Consider throwing a stone into the water; how could you know where that stone sank? You don’t know exactly where it sank, but you can still tell with all the waves surrounding that stone. We will never know the exact definition of an object, but we can use many other things to describe it. Understanding what deconstruction is will be the same.
The recreation of the NYC images
In order to get the initial understanding of my thesis topic, three experimental gifs were made. Executing the idea of deconstruction brought interesting results.
Deconstruction of the discipline part 1
Including three linking parts, I used deconstruction as a methodology to explore Michel Foucault’s idea of discipline. Referring to the book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, I created a deck of tarot cards to decompose the the key characteristics of the discipline mentioned in that book.
Deconstruction of the discipline part 2
Stories that were constructed in the first one were further deconstructed here. I kept opening the form of it. Using installations, those stories were told in a different way.
