Month: January 2020

Book of Disquiet 2020, plaster, 70x50x40cm   In the article Encounters with an-Art Thing, Jane Bennett refers to what Lambros Malafouris calls “material engagement,”. She writes that sometimes a nonhuman thing will become an extension of a human body and sometimes vice versa: “There are no fixed agentic roles in this game.”[1] The extension of the human body makes the audience’s body being captured and utilized, the “Utility Relation” is…

The artwork Book of Disquiet combines the audience’s heart rate, artworks and performance in public space. It explores the tension between the very personal matters of the human body and its relation to public space. The tension that sexuality is suppressed in public space, as the way Chinese government suppress people to speak out their political opinions. It inquires whether the personal and collective experience are able to address the cultural hegemony…

The forearm of the audicen is connected to ECG electronic pads, which is interacted with the movement of the sculpture. When the heartbeat is triggered by the sexually charged content of film, the movement of the sculpture changes according to the different mode of heartbeat from the audience. The heartbeat of the audience, the film and the interactive sculpture becomes an intimate feedback loop. The work explores the tension between…