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…

此装置探索公众如何介入艺术 ，如何通过艺术表达明确艺术“立场”。 不同的政治语境缔造出截然不同的艺术表达方式。两位来自中国的艺术家，刚刚来到伦敦，经历完全不同的社会经济政治环境，在有感于东西方完全不同的艺术表达方式的同时，反思自身原有的艺术表达方式。 作品《立场》放置在展览馆的户外空间花园上，思考如何将艺术作品与这个已存在的公共空间产生联系，并赋予它一定的社会功能。作品中的文字暗示了对于既定规则的打破，蓝白颜色及相关的连接点也都有着文化隐喻。作品带有明显的个人文化背景与当地文化政治语境的冲突，对于艺术家如何介入社会的功能与作用，艺术家身份进行再思考。 这是一件合作作品，在观念主题的形成和制作过程中，艺术家始终思考各自在这个群体中的身份属性，并如何与集体联系。所有的讨论及创作都基于“立场”的表达，基于与公众的介入联系而发展。 观众可以在观看作品的同时，坐在装置椅上讨论背后的“文字墙”中的社会现象，在思考作品表达的同时，引发对于政治文化环境差异的反思。   Art must take side This installation explores how the public intervenes in art, and how to express artistic “position” through artistic expression. Different political contexts create very different art expressions. Two artists from China, who just arrived in London, experienced a completely different socio-economic and political environment compared to their home country. They self-reflect on their original way of artistic expression, while comparing…