Arrival

Arrival examines how not-knowing produces tension, hesitation, and throughput behaviour, and how that tension either dissolves or intensifies the moment information is received.

The work brings together multiple viewpoints inside a metro station to observe how the arrival of a train propagates through a crowd. At any given moment, groups of people occupy different positions in relation to the event: some have turned the corner and received the information, while others remain in a state of uncertainty.

That difference in knowledge produces a measurable behavioural shift. The adjustment propagates through the crowd as a chain reaction; people respond not only to the train, but to the changed behaviour of the people in front of them. The approaching metro becomes legible as a deterministic movement pattern spreading backwards through the station, all the way to the ticket gates.