Public Intimacy-Feel Me In a hyper-digital world of post-pandemic era, where social distancing becomes the social normal in public space, the concept of public intimacy and sense of touch become luxury concepts. Art as a self-communicative language, this series of ongoing project Public Intimacy-Feel Me tries to build a self-connection between the artworks themselves in relation to the viewers. That self-connection shared is a measure of joy and playfulness which…

  Public Intimacy-Touch Me & Hug Me When social distancing become the social norms in public space, touching and hugging become luxury social interaction during the pandemic. After 1 year lockdown, couldn’t resist the impulse for making sculptures aiming for hugging and touching. Not big but satisfying. #Touchmeandhugme #sensousdesire #humanganitals #supernormalstimuli #studiowork #sculpting

In this particular period of struggle against a global pandemic, Chinese and European governments employed completely opposite policies in terms of epidemic prevention. People in different cultural environments also have opposite attitudes towards treating epidemics and wearing masks, etc. The political, cultural and social difference gave me a great cultural shock.  Public Intimacy is a double-solo exhibition created around individual experience in public space. “Public gatherings” and “Public Intimacy” have become…

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…

This is series of Augmented Reality interface artworks, which invite the viewers to interact with the the artworks showed in their devices. When the audience entered specific public space like Victoria station or Battersea Bridge, my artwork will show up by scanning the QR code. The work will vanish and re-appear by clicking on the screen of their devices. By creating a moment of overlapping between the real world and…