Night Vessel (Working Title)
Single-Channel Video; work-in-progress
Single-Channel Video; work-in-progress
If She Were a Barber
Single-Channel Video, 11minutes 50seconds;
Four-Channel Video Installation, 12 minutes; work-in-progress
If She Were a Barber explores personal choices and the intertwined histories of two professions—if she hadn’t been a surgeon, she might have become a barber. Once a single profession before diverging, barbering and surgery share similar tools. The film stages repetitive body-related actions—health care, sewing, combing—while weaving interviews on 1970s career choices, fragmented memories, and invisible violence, recited by different women.
Re-edited footage from The Woman Barber (1962), a propaganda film advocating for women’s labor liberation in the service industry, reinforces this hypothetical proposition, shifting its narrative from liberation to suspected marital murder. Is imagining an alternative possibility as resistance to reality itself also a form of violence? The project captures moments of vulnerability, probing the fluid power dynamics of care, control, harm, and intimacy.
Single-Channel Video, 11minutes 50seconds;
Four-Channel Video Installation, 12 minutes; work-in-progress
If She Were a Barber explores personal choices and the intertwined histories of two professions—if she hadn’t been a surgeon, she might have become a barber. Once a single profession before diverging, barbering and surgery share similar tools. The film stages repetitive body-related actions—health care, sewing, combing—while weaving interviews on 1970s career choices, fragmented memories, and invisible violence, recited by different women.
Re-edited footage from The Woman Barber (1962), a propaganda film advocating for women’s labor liberation in the service industry, reinforces this hypothetical proposition, shifting its narrative from liberation to suspected marital murder. Is imagining an alternative possibility as resistance to reality itself also a form of violence? The project captures moments of vulnerability, probing the fluid power dynamics of care, control, harm, and intimacy.
Still; Super 8mm and Digital; 2025Intimacy 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