Centrifugal Delusions
Overview
Centrifugal Delusions is a speculative animation exploring how inherited trauma and collective memory shape our perception of reality. Set within an imagined centrifugal society, the project questions whether shared reality is objective, or a collective illusion sustained by the systems around us.
FROM INHERITED FEAR TO COLLECTIVE ILLUSION
The project began with a family story in which warnings about the danger of a city wall persisted long after the wartime conditions that created them had disappeared. Through conversations with people who recognised similar patterns of inherited fear in their own families, I began to consider how repeated behaviours can outlive their original causes and gradually shape shared perceptions of reality.
Coding Origin: Repeated fears and expectations gradually become behavioural rules, persisting even after the conditions that produced them have disappeared.
Each of us experiences a customized illusion, but due to the times, our illusions overlap, becoming a shared reality in society.
Development
The fictional society was developed as a spatial hierarchy, with characters positioned and redistributed according to the centrifugal system.
We are all experiencers of complex trauma, coded by trauma itself. Society is imagined as a centrifuge in which individuals are continuously classified, accelerated and redistributed across social hierarchies. Together, we sustain a collective illusion of reality. This “centrifuge” tests our ability to adapt to social rules, driving us to spin rapidly and move between hierarchical levels until we stop thinking and surrender ourselves to the illusion.
Final Animation
