Wanqing Zhang

In China, there is a mysterious group of people called ‘scalpers’ who have become active, whether it’s in the purchase of concert tickets, food and beverage or even hospital medicine, scalpers are everywhere. What I’m concerned about is what and who ‘feeds’ this group. Besides the imperfections of the market order, are there some consumer characteristics or even consumer psychology that help this group to grow? With learning from the design of Chinese deities, I created a set of scalper gods and record the crimes committed by the group in the hope of bringing people’s attention to this phenomenon.

In this age of developed internet, there are countless truths. This project inspired by my father’s own experience, uses puzzles as an analogy for the forms of different truths constructed by online opinions, extracting netizens’ conjectures and interpretations of my father’s identity from TikTok, and combining the process of piecing them together to construct a new visual symbol and image of my father. The target audience is children under the age of 12, and I hope to convey my disapproval of the spreading of online opinion in a relaxed, humorous and child-friendly way.