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展览包含的第一个互动装置是“If a condition is never named, does it still require a cure?”。观众可以在装置中自行挑选“疲劳”“炎症”“焦虑”等生理和心理要素进行组合，自主命名一种身体状态，并判断其是否需要被药物干预。在这一过程中，观众既是诊断者，又是被诊断者。装置中并未提供任何标准，而是从某种程度还原现实中疾病生成的路径：从生命体的现象出发，到语言和名称的介入，再到医学体系的确立…该装置揭示着，疾病并非天然成立，而是在命名、分类与判断中被逐渐构建。

展览包含的第二个互动装置是“When does life become a disease”。通过对蛋白印迹图像的捕捉、排列和再创作，策展人旨在追问：生命在何种时刻跨越界限，被归入“疾病”的范畴？若没有人为的干涉，对于疾病的定义是否在造物者手中就自然存在？借助实验室图像、医学定义与数据逻辑，该装置呈现了健康与疾病、生物信号与条带笔触间模糊而流动的边界。正如展览所暗示，细胞状态与蛋白表达本身并不应携带“异常”或“失调”的意义，因为这些标签来源于人类对“正常”的预设。当一个数值被界定为偏离、一个特征被命名为症状，身体状态才会获得“疾病”的属性。   

此外，空间中也悬挂有诗歌作品，如“Band”和“Naming”，为观众提供从理性分析转向感性体验的契机。在科学语言外，诗歌使那些无法被精确定义的经验得以记录，使“疾病”这一概念呈现出更加复杂的情感与存在维度。   

通过这个展览，策展人并未试图给出答案，而是提出一个更为根本的追问：当人类以科学的名义划定界限、以治疗的名义介入生命时，我们是否是在解释某种客观的真实存在，还是在不断地塑造何为“正常”何为“异常”的世界观？它让我们在惯常的“健康/疾病”二分法前停驻片刻，去感受身体经验中那些无法被数据捕捉的细微真实，去质疑那些被我们默认为“自然”的分类标签。也许，理解疾病的第一步，不是急于寻找治疗方案，而是重新学习如何倾听自己的身体。

When we speak of “disease”, are we referring to an objectively existing set of symptoms, or to something that comes into being only after it has been named and constructed?

Recently, the exhibition “When Does Life Become a Disease”, curated by Huang Yiwen from Grade 11 Class 5, was presented on campus. Integrating biological science, medical discourse, and artistic expression, the exhibition employs interactive installations and textual artworks to guide viewers into a philosophically reflective space centered on the concept of “disease.”   

The first interactive installation, “If a Condition Is Never Named, Does It Still Require a Cure?”, invites viewers to select and combine elements such as “fatigue,” “inflammation,” and “anxiety” to construct a bodily state. Participants then assign a name to this state and determine whether it requires medical intervention. In this process, the viewer becomes both a patient being diagnosed and a doctor diagnosing others. The installation provides no fixed standard; instead, it reconstructs the real-world trajectory through which disease is formed—from observable biological phenomena, to the intervention of language and naming, and ultimately to the establishment of medical frameworks. It suggests that disease is not inherent existed, but rather being constructed by human-beings, through acts of naming, classification, and judgment.   

The second installation, “When Does Life Become a Disease”, further interrogates the threshold at which life is categorized as pathological. Through the capture, arrangement, and reinterpretation of Western blot imagery, the curator raises a fundamental question: at what moment does life cross the boundary and become defined as disease? In the absence of human intervention, would such definitions exist at all, or are they solely products of human cognition? Drawing on laboratory visuals, medical definitions, and data logic, the installation reveals the fluid and ambiguous boundaries between health and disease, as well as between biological signals and visual arts. As the exhibition suggests, cellular states and protein expressions do not inherently carry meanings such as “abnormal” or “dysfunctional”; these labels mainly emerge from human assumptions about what constitutes the “normal.” Only when a value is marked as deviation, or a feature is named as a symptom, does a bodily state acquire the status of “disease.”   

In addition, poems, such as “Band” and “Naming”, are suspended within the space, offering viewers a transition from rational analysis to emotional experience. Beyond the language of science, these poetic works capture forms of experience that resist precise definition, adding further emotional and existential depth to the concept of disease.

Rather than offering definitive answers, the exhibition poses a more fundamental inquiry: when humans draw boundaries in the name of science and intervene in life in the name of treatment, are we uncovering an objective reality, or are we continually shaping our understanding of what counts as “normal”?

文、责编：11-5 黄毅雯

文字指导：李婷

主持：10-8 周乐馨

图片、视频：星河湾电视台

10-5 俞轩烨 11-8 吴灏宁

视频剪辑、编辑：曲昊睿

审核：苏晔