Non digital moment ——
Navigate in the darkness
Reliving his life once more, a time and place that I could never have experienced, now comes to me，burning on my body.
Shijie Jin, Documentary: Where I come from
Dragon bone
Because of my hometown's geography near to
Southeast Asia, many individuals have made a living in Southeast Asia for a
long time. This link became more common in the 19th and 20th centuries when
Western colonisation brought more work opportunities to Southeast Asia, and
many
Chinese people travelled there to make a living, including my
great-grandfather. In this context, darkness represents something unknown to
them, a sensation of insecurity, the future, an ocean, or a letter. I also
created a short novel ‘Earthquake’ about this topic, but it’s more focused on
the story of the women who remained in their homeland on this period.
Surnames are also passed down in the
process. Many surnames like Chen in Southeast Asia have taken on many versions
of spelling because nationalism, colonisation, and the various dialects of
China. These variations on the spelling of the surname are an excellent example
of how capital, rights, and language all play a role in the construction of
identity.
A friend from Vietnam, her surname is Tran, which is another spelling of Chen that comes from the Chaoshan dialect. Chaoshan is also my Chinese hometown.
Fragment
My previous work also refers to a relationship with family.
Fragment is a work about my grandfather's death.
I connected my grandfather's stuff with images of my body in this work to develop a linkage about legacy between object and gene.
A digital moment that reveals its shortcomings —— weather forecast
The modern home can be said to be a phantasmagoric place, to the extent that electronic media of various kinds allow the radical intrusion of distant events into the space of domesticity. —— Home Territories : Media, Mobility and Identity, Taylor & Francis Group, 2000.
The place of this work is on the first
floor in the kitchen which is a dynamic place.
The kitchen is a home area and a daily space for the women in the household. Sculptures of clouds and daily objects are placed in it as a location of link between everyday life and the weather forecast. These models also refer to the importance of weather models as the starting condition for weather forecasting.
The kitchen is a home area and a daily space for the women in the household. Sculptures of clouds and daily objects are placed in it as a location of link between everyday life and the weather forecast. These models also refer to the importance of weather models as the starting condition for weather forecasting.
