2019.8.17
Landed in the Netherlands.
2019.9.15
We are assigned a new studio.It becomes part of my daily life, I stay there every day until late at night (before the lockdown). At the same time, in my creative process it has different functions like storing materials, making and displaying. I like to collect materials like a bird, the studio is my nest. With tools and materials directly available, I feel very at ease and comfortable in it.
2019.9.20
These pictures appeared on my Facebook feed on September 20. A suspected suicide corpse was found on this beach. People wondered if he was an innocent passerby who was killed by the police at Prince Edward Station on August 31 and was thrown into the sea in disguise to commit suicide. Rumors have been circulated that several protesters were beaten to death at the station, but the police have rejected allegations. However, many people kept setting up a mourning vigil outside one exit of the station.
This is the place where he was found. The image itself is so surreal and so impressive. Then I printed out the photo and posted it on the desk.
2019.9.30
First studio visit---I made an animation based on a photo from a piece of news about another floating corpse found in Harbour. From there I made a stage/installation for the ghosts to 'settle down'.
2019.10.8-10
MMM Project week 1 --- Bodies
2019.10.16
I wanted to know more about Groningen,so I joined the BAG Project initiated by Shane Walterner. We reached the end of the northernmost part of the Netherlands.
2019.10.29-31
MMM Project week 2 --- Spaces
2019.11.21
The project 'A Reminder from Last Summer' is originated during the protest in Hong Kong, where the helplessness and police violence was haunting the city. It consists of 6 scenes with installation and animation, based on Derrida's ghost theory and supplemented with personal observations. This project is a metaphor and imagination of grief which is generally considered as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us. At the same time, building democracy humane social practices will alleviate suffering and healing the trauma.
2019.11.24
In the exhibition of BAG Project, I presented a work named "Every day I make a flag". Throughout the period, I made use of objects found in the trash and turned them into a flag-like installation day by day. At the same time, I made a statement about wish.
2019.12.9
MMM Project week 1 --- Time
Our research started with a story memorizing experiment in which participants repeated the stories they were asked to remember at regular intervals. However, before the completion, we found that most of the data of the recorder were gone accidentally. Our camera has lost memory. This video represents a dialogue between human and machines about memory and time and attempts to deconstruct the meaning of forgetting and death.
2019.12.12
When I read the news on Facebook, they always come to me, tied, lying on the ground and seems painful. I wanted to know how they feel, so I asked someone to tie me into the same pose as theirs. It turned into a performance at ArtisBook Shop named "The Cold Ground".
2020.3.17
The lyrics of this song have been entangling in my mind for two years, and I decided to put it on the canvas. Later it turns into an installation named "Will You". Written by Leslie Cheung in 1989, the song, "Will you remember me" is about to say goodbye to the stage. Leslie was diagnosed with depression and committed suicide on 1 April 2003 (during the SARS). He jumped off the 24th floor of the hotel. Every year there are still a lot of people mourning him in Hong Kong. I am thinking about how mourning forms our collective memory and identity. We mourn for June 4th massacre which is vanished in China every year. We mourn for people killed by police every month (although it might be a rumor). The ghost turned into numbers of those dates, which became code, living inside our brain.
2020.4.8
I made an online exhibition called "The Cruise to Nowhere" with my previous works (from 2017 till now) based on the book ‘The Castle of Crossed Destinies’ written by Italo Calvino. The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator. In the exhibition, I imagine each webpage as a room on a cruise and each object is playing as a storyteller. Through putting the previous physical works into the network in the form of image fragments and words, I tried to create an online heterogeneous spatial narration for them.
2020.5.30
In the midst of the coronavirus outbreak, my freinds were asked to move out of their house, where we had some nonsensical conversation, like walking a biscuit and a bagel and those beautiful Russian girls. "You With Me" is a video that examines poetic fragments in daily conversation from the perspective of linguistics through reorganization and reproduction. Under the context of coronavirus lockdown, I rethink the boredness and emptiness of everyday talk, and question how human conditions are reflected through the perception of time in relation to language.
2020.6.12
In 2017, thinking of spatial issues I initiated the Wild Art Festival to encourage fellow students to exhibit their creations in public space other than the school building or white-cube galleries. Entering its fourth year, it has grown into a larger scale, from the campus to residential area in our community. This year, with the title "Art Guerrilla Anytime", we question the rigid regulations and autonomy of space in the form of "guerrilla", to challenge the land-use policies and regulations of an area. What I involved in is curating, through communication and building up a platform for discussion where dialogue takes place.
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