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ＥＮＧＬＩＳＨ / ＣＨＩＮＥＳＥ |
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STATEMENT
The process of imagining the relationships between different entangled forms in life, for me, involves rethinking the distance between others and myself, and beginning to determine my own position therein. In my works, I attempt to address the imagined relationship between a subject and an other, through the subtle cracks that may exist within culture, language or identity, and the differences that exist within those cracks. This creates the possibility for a new kind of relationship. I do not attempt to express the conflicts and contradictions that lie within differences, but use humour as a means to make connections, or produce accidents.
I take my own video artworks as a reproduction resulted from a game. Before it turns into a completed work, i have already finished a game for amateurs. In my work, I design a game-like structure for those people being recorded. The production process is structured within an open script, in which any mistake and error is allowed. The development of the script depends on the differences among cultures and the variation among systems. In this game, I make a self-split subject to indulge itself into the game. The subject simultaneously plays multiple roles such as the activity organizer, the activity host, the participator, as well as an observer. While I bring the recorded video back for post-production, the subject turns itself into an artist who is working on the arrangement and the disposition of the work. I, as the subject, develop myself in the work, wrapping the "object" within the well-arranged relationship structure layer by layer.
What I try to emphasize in my artistic practice is the cross-cultural, cross-geographical, and cross-temporal corelation, and how it affects me. Through a series of conversations among heterogeneous individuals, I thus demonstrate a critique against a stabilized rules.
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