Moon Vessel (Working Title)
Single-Channel Video; work-in-progress
Single-Channel Video; work-in-progress
Still; Super 8mm and Digital; 2022
Installation View; 2022
If She Were a Barber
Single-Channel Video, 8minutes 56seconds;
Four-Channel Video Installation, 12 minutes; work-in-progress
If She Were a Barber explores identity, class, duties of care and female labour through contemplation of two seemingly disparate professions, the surgeon and the barber. A discussion with my mother around the necessity of a traditional marriage – a nuanced issue of both care and parental control – became a lens through which to consider the human body. The film expands on the conversation about life choices and divergent paths, pondering a universal hypothetical proposition, “If only … had …”. Had she not studied medicine, she may have followed her father into the hairdressing profession, working in a state-run barbershop or later, her own salon after the economic reform in 80s. These professions have an intertwined history that weaves the equally linked notions of intimacy, healing and harm.
Single-Channel Video, 8minutes 56seconds;
Four-Channel Video Installation, 12 minutes; work-in-progress
If She Were a Barber explores identity, class, duties of care and female labour through contemplation of two seemingly disparate professions, the surgeon and the barber. A discussion with my mother around the necessity of a traditional marriage – a nuanced issue of both care and parental control – became a lens through which to consider the human body. The film expands on the conversation about life choices and divergent paths, pondering a universal hypothetical proposition, “If only … had …”. Had she not studied medicine, she may have followed her father into the hairdressing profession, working in a state-run barbershop or later, her own salon after the economic reform in 80s. These professions have an intertwined history that weaves the equally linked notions of intimacy, healing and harm.
Still; Super 8mm and Digital; 2024Intimacy Surveillance
Real-time Interactive Video Installation; Fridge; Infrared Camera; 2022
"Intimacy Surveillance" explores situations when intimacy can be captured, staged, performed, or dehumanized. The body activates, holds, navigates, and manipulates intimacy, transferring vital signs as an image-making tool through interacting with an infrared camera placed in a fridge at 5 °C.
Real-time Interactive Video Installation; Fridge; Infrared Camera; 2022
"Intimacy Surveillance" explores situations when intimacy can be captured, staged, performed, or dehumanized. The body activates, holds, navigates, and manipulates intimacy, transferring vital signs as an image-making tool through interacting with an infrared camera placed in a fridge at 5 °C.
35mm Still of Installation Documentation; 2022
Video Documentation Still; 2022
(Cleaning Services were provided together with Wang Xiyang and Qin Yanan and cleaning robots)
Installation View, Door-to-Door Cleaning Service, Robot Vacuums, Floor plans, Videos, 2021
“Can I Go to Your House to Sweep the Floor?“ provided door-to-door cleaning services to female residents of Lianshi using robotic vacuum devices. The robots learn the layout of these domestic locations, building memories of ‘home’. When transferred to the exhibition environment, the robots clean according to their remembered domestic service. Displaced from their familiar setting, crashing into one another they vocalize their sense of loss and confusion in an anguished “I can’t find my way home, come to help me.”
Installation View from the top
Floor Plans Collected By Robots; Cleaning Routes
Documentations of robot vacuums working
In a local resident’s home
In a pet clinic
In a recycling station
The view from a robot vacuum’s perspective
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zhú mù nòng/The Riverside
Super 8mm Film, 3 minutes, 2022
"The Riverside" constructs a document of the Lianxi River in still frames. Navigating the river's path towards the Grand Canal in Lianshi, the camera builds a narrative around the operation of memory in action within the tense landscape of historical excavation and urban development.
Super 8mm Film, 3 minutes, 2022
"The Riverside" constructs a document of the Lianxi River in still frames. Navigating the river's path towards the Grand Canal in Lianshi, the camera builds a narrative around the operation of memory in action within the tense landscape of historical excavation and urban development.
Film Stills