Triad (2019, revised 2021), is a video installation that explores the matter of police brutality and the abuse of institutional power which took an active role in suppressing the press during the 2019 Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement in Hong Kong.
In addition to the physical violence imposed by the Hong Kong Police Force, the selective use of strong strobe lights, used against news reporters to stop coverage of the full story, created a new form of non-physical violence. Living aboard, I could only witness and experience the protest in my hometown from the online news, and with this non-physical violence, I was even taken even further away from knowing what was happening in Hong Kong.
Duration: Various
Dimension: Various
Materials: solar panels, speakers, amplifier, cables, projection
Be Water: Flow With You @ SITE Gallery, Chicago, IL 2020
Be Water: Flow With You @ SITE Gallery, Chicago, IL 2020
In this work, I collected news footage of such incidents together and arranged them into a “video score” and is projected on three custom-made circuits. Through these circuits, news footage is being processed and transformed live into sounds. The resulting soundscape is never the same, but it remains the same qualities: real-time, aggressive and overwhelmed.
A Large “black cube” was built around the projection, with a set of large black curtains, to cover the video from directly exposing to the gallery space, and audience can go inside the 'cube' to view the video composition. However, the strong noises and lights generated from the news footage will still leak all over the gallery; there is nowhere to avoid them.
Triad is named for its three-part structure, as well as for its meaning in Cantonese: the Mob.
*Updated in March 2021: This work will no longer allowing audience to enter inside the "cube" to view the video score, as the video score might contain news footage that could potentially violate the Hong Kong National Security Laws that passed in 2020, in which the Chinese Government can arrest anyone, anywhere in the world who criticize them (Article 38). I also removed all of the photos / video documentations that showed Hong Kong police.
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/04/02/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-9/
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/m-plus-museum-carrie-lam/index.html
https://artreview.com/future-of-museums-in-hong-kong-threatened-with-censorship/
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/17/hong-kongs-lam-vows-full-alert-against-artworks-endangering-national-security-as-artist-warns-of-devastating-crackdown/
*Updated in March 2021: This work will no longer allowing audience to enter inside the "cube" to view the video score, as the video score might contain news footage that could potentially violate the Hong Kong National Security Laws that passed in 2020, in which the Chinese Government can arrest anyone, anywhere in the world who criticize them (Article 38). I also removed all of the photos / video documentations that showed Hong Kong police.
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/04/02/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-9/
https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/m-plus-museum-carrie-lam/index.html
https://artreview.com/future-of-museums-in-hong-kong-threatened-with-censorship/
https://hongkongfp.com/2021/03/17/hong-kongs-lam-vows-full-alert-against-artworks-endangering-national-security-as-artist-warns-of-devastating-crackdown/
