Minghao Li

ESL

This project contains some of the strangeness I felt when I first arrived in Canada in 2015 and some of my emotions in the six years since. Our courses and many public services are marked with ESL as an international student. Although I know that this is designed to help many newcomers and immigrants to Canada who is unfamiliar with English integrate better into society, it is also the ESL that makes it impossible for newcomers to integrate into the local community.I think this feeling is familiar among international students. Students in other countries want most recognition and inclusion, not special treatment. This kind of special treatment eventually leads to cultural stereotypes and the separation and independence of multiculturalism.Through this work, I want to express this prevalence of cultural stereotypes through 2D, 3D, 4D and experimental methods (test, interactive game, interview, answer sheet). Although people wherever in the world will certainly not recognize the words I provide because they are not a real language, I think as an artist, I need to prove and show his point of view through the absurd and extreme.