Thirteen Diaries
2020
HD video / 13 channels / color / sound / dimensions variable.
This series of moving images offer a documentation of my 14-day mandatory self-isolation in Beijing, from February to March in 2020. During that time, I yearned to produce a visual diary against a multitude of challenging physical and psychological demands in my life. Throughout the 14 days, there are times that I read a book first, then went to film the environment, and vice-versa.
The intensity of that visceral experience is reflected here in my exploration to discover a unique vocabulary each day, for each vignette, experimenting with text, image, and sound.
The full series here.
“Thirteen Diaries” aims to provoke the viewer a relative experience of the non-linear perception that I had experienced, to active and extend the internal sensory to a broader context.
There are two separate but mutual inspirations of this series: the precedents of literature and film, and the documentary clips of the accessible surroundings. The materials from both sources might seem irrelevant at first sight, but by employing montage, juxtaposition, and repetition, the effects take a cue from one of the early video praxis, “experimental image-making,” they form an integrated reflection complex.
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2020
HD video / 13 channels / color / sound / dimensions variable.
This series of moving images offer a documentation of my 14-day mandatory self-isolation in Beijing, from February to March in 2020. During that time, I yearned to produce a visual diary against a multitude of challenging physical and psychological demands in my life. Throughout the 14 days, there are times that I read a book first, then went to film the environment, and vice-versa.
The intensity of that visceral experience is reflected here in my exploration to discover a unique vocabulary each day, for each vignette, experimenting with text, image, and sound.
The full series here.
“Thirteen Diaries” aims to provoke the viewer a relative experience of the non-linear perception that I had experienced, to active and extend the internal sensory to a broader context.
There are two separate but mutual inspirations of this series: the precedents of literature and film, and the documentary clips of the accessible surroundings. The materials from both sources might seem irrelevant at first sight, but by employing montage, juxtaposition, and repetition, the effects take a cue from one of the early video praxis, “experimental image-making,” they form an integrated reflection complex.
