Hesitation grips me
camera obscura, latex, metal, acrylic, wheels, 2018
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.
Commissioned by Hong Kong Jockey Club and ifva
Expose
Valve, titanium heating coil, linear slide, metal, LDPE tubing, projector , micro controller, video loop: 7 min, 9 sec
Expose 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.
If the Moment Came
wired glass window, micro controller, wood, projector, solenoid, video loop: 1 min, 3 sec
When 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 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 in which a window of the Legislative Council was smashed, to represent the two forces. I reposition these 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 a condition that is unreal. The ball of kendama is thrown up, hit and opens 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.
The Burst of Pleasure,
Arduino, Processing, Custom Electronics, Ballons, Needle, Air Compressors, Valves, 2012
The Burst of Pleasure is an electronic installation of a birthday celebration setting centered in the room stands a birthday cake above which a balloon is being inflated slowly. On top of the cake is a candle with a pin in it. As the balloon inflates it nearly touches the pin and then deflates slowly. As tension builds and is released watching the balloon inflate and then deflates, a computerized random setting has been installed to allow the balloon to touch the pin one time a day causing a burst with confetti fireworks. The sudden burst into cheers is like a pleasure released from the pressure, yet at the same time one feels a slight loss and depression after the climax is reached and the longing vanishes. The process of building up the excitement and relief holds the audience’s breath and emotion and serves as a certain art therapy.
Index
2025
When the Earth Remembers
Video Sculptural Installation
If the Moment Came
Wired glass window, micro controller, wood, projector, solenoid, video
2022
Stress Test Fabric, custom electronics, motors
2020
Attributes Porcelain, metal
2019
Long Gone
3D printed resin
Since We Last Met
Found Object, motor, wood
…Until I am found
Stainless steel, glass, concrete
2018
Hesitation grips me
Camera Obscura, latex, metal, acrylic, wheels
Restless Reflection
Mirror, metal, motor
2017
I am fine, I am good, I am happy
Printer, paper, custom electronics
Please take your time
Hourglass, metal, grained tablets, prescripted label on plastic bag
2016 - 2024
Dependence
Metal, light bulb, cable
2014
Waiting For Another Round
Four-channel loop video 6 mins
2012
The Burst of Pleasure
Arduino, Processing, Custom Electronics, Ballons, Needle, Air Compressors, Valves
2015
Expose
Valve, titanium heating coil, linear slide, metal, LDPE tubing, projector , micro controller, video
Scattering Journey
Archival inkjet print