Non-Theatrical Program
The Landscape as the State of World
It recreates the scenes of New York by using the early color film production process. The images compressed by a triple-exposure technique create 3D effect and transform the cityscapes in a fantastic and surreal way.
Firework images shot with 16mm film at a Japanese summer festival alternately create organic rhythms. The changing shapes of flames and smoke visually reveal the life of film and magically combine the dynamic mechanism of film and fireworks.
It captures the collision of tradition and modernity, and nature and industry at Big Data Valley in Guizhou, China. The camera serially shoots the data center and surrounding humans, animals, and scenes to connect and confront different elements while exploring a new relationship at the same time.
It explores the image and sound of sirens to re-spotlight on their symbolic meanings and changes. It also collaborates with various artists to create new siren sounds and examine the relationship between crisis and social transformation. The non-theatrical program screens a special version featuring 3-channel monitor and 3.1 channel sound.
It explores the time paradox, conditions of era, and essence of art by combining the images of observing living organisms that are decaying inside glass tubes. The simple installations, virtual narratives, and performance watch decomposition and extinction to unveil the paradox of life and death.
In 2070, a woman in gold glitter clothes appears from behind a fluorescent ring-shaped symbol. In a world disconnected from the natural world, humans take care of their health through absurdly strange and garish yoga sessions. The unique and emotional approach evokes empathy for both humans and non-humans to encourage the audiences to restructure the surrounding environments and actively react to the climate crisis.
An archeologist in the corner of the room from Buenos Aires explores the history of digital devices and electronic wastes. He brings up a reflective essay reflecting the time of environmental crisis and overproduction by contemplating the meanings and memories of the electronic wastes through images and sounds collected over a decade. The non-theatrical program screens a special version featuring 2-channel system along with the installation of electronic waste piles.
This visual work mixes actual images and game renderings at a sugar factory located in Guangdong. It explores the future agriculture and optimized algorithm of the ant colony and spotlights the irony in datarithm and prediction through “Laplace’s Demon” and images of devastated sugar factory.
It records 5 bridges that were covered with political slogans, protests, and posters during the democracy movement in Hong Kong. It explores structural disorganization of cityscape and according emotional and historic memories to contemplate how the arts express spatial politics and historic records.