Drifting Temple I(2020)

The ‘Car God’ originated in China, where it is a folklore that is mostly believed to bless good driving. It has a spirit of accelerating society as because the car industry catalyzed the modern world and established the discipline of city spaces and working schedules. The project reframes the concept of“Car God” to be an inspired spirit of unknown and designs its rituals as activation and an attitude towards the alienation of individuals in the car world, to return to what first drew us to driving — a desire for freedom and curiosity about the future.

Drifting Temple explore the ritual of praying to car god, and a series object and actions around it, including a wheel tool, a path carpet, a film of car god's saying, and a paragraph of pray words. The project situates in a series car context—garages, roads, parking lots, the installation and action are variable depending on different environment. So far there are two versions (I and II). Through the wheel tool that can be manipulated freely, everyone could become the worshipper, and they are encouraged to abandon their self- destructive drive for speed and performance, and rather use the ritual tools to play and get lost.

The project emphasises the responsibility of each of us to evolve our consumer relationship with the car and the unknown, while recognising that greater cultural myths also requires collective long- term reimagining.