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Can you help me press the button (2023) was recorded inside a working elevator, inspired by the sense of stage fright in enclosed public spaces such as elevators. As the elevator moves, the chaotic inner dialogues echo in this enclosed space. The sound of the buttons transpassing back and forth resembles an alarm. I amplify the paradoxical experience of social anxiety that is unnoticed, where what appears to be a calm and unruffled scene to the outside world, but internally was a deep emotional conflict. 

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