New Village is an interactive artwork and game exploring 1950s Malaya. Can you “unforget” a place that you have never visited? Not a return to one’s motherland, but a voyage to new dimensions? Ding reimagines the village buildings as dislocated Cold War remnants and emotional-architectural receptacles, where tiny altar houses within the rural homes become magical portals to parallel villages, which preserve cultural identities whilst also suggesting the possibility of alternative futures.
New Village, Photo: Debbie Ding
New Village, Photo: Debbie Ding