Moving Stories
If the Moment Came
Wired glass window, micro controller, wood, projector
, solenoid
video loop: 1 min, 3 secWhen I was doing a field recording in Admiralty during the Occupy Movement, I saw a few boys playing kendama near their campsites. I was attracted by the sound when the ball hit the wood handle in a quiet space ( which was used to be a central business district) and their concentration. I figured that the trial and errors through practicing kendama is similar to what the students were undergoing to pursue universal suffrage. I linked kendama with an incident that a window of the Legislative Council was smashed, to represent the two forces. I reposition this two objects to depict my feeling about the spirit of students (kendama) facing the power (wired glass window) which is being used as a metaphor of the authority.
The title If the Moment Came is a conditional phrase which is used for condition that is unreal. The ball of kendama is thrown up, hit and open the wired glass window, which soon closes again. Fantasizing about the moment of breaking free from the forces, the ball hits the window persistently, but in vain.
Stress Test
Fabric, custom electronics, motors
2022
Commissioned by Tai Kwun Contemporary
Curator: Erin Li
Fabricator: Tung Wing Hong
Formally inspired by both newspaper production lines and gym equipment, a belt of elastic fabric is constantly being pushed and pulled by forces from various angles, emitting a strong sense of tension and anxiety. A closer look would reveal glitchy vocabularies of emotions printed all over the fabric, which points to how daily information overload from news and social media nowadays keeps some people on an emotional roller coaster and even challenges their mental well-being. The artist’s determination to live with the inherent instability of the structure itself parallels her wish that those in adversity gains resilience through stress tests in life.
Hesitation grips me
Camera Obscura, latex, metal, acrylic, wheels
2018
Comissioned by Hong Kong Jockey Club and ifva
Hesitation grips me adapts the optical phenomenon derived from the camera obscura with a structure of dark chamber to depict the condition of hesitant to contact with the outside world. The image of the outside world falls into our eyes through the lens. The changes of the internal structure brings about images that wander between the thin line of blurriness and sharpness, catching and releasing .
Expose
valve, titanium heating coil, linear slide, metal, LDPE tubing, projector , micro controller
video loop: 7 min, 9 secExpose” is a video kinetic installation. An exposed crowd of unidentified people protesting under the sun is projected on a thin metal rod, which is heated to a very high temperature. When anonymous water from the top drops on people on the rod, it transforms into vapor and disappears, dissolving their souls to the air, without an end.