Artist: Luan Xueyan
Curators: Zhou Chu, Yang Li
Artist: Michele Chu
Curators: Yang Li, Zhou Chu
After a farewell, how do we live with experiences that continue to reverberate through the body and memory? And amid loss, how might we rebuild our connections to ourselves, to others, and to the present?
This workshop invites you to gaze together into the crevices of the everyday, allowing silent objects to sound, and reweaving scattered traces of life into the hidden stories obscured by time.
Through the multiple media of text, painting, spoken narration, computer operation, space, and video, he leads the audience through a shared deduction of the question, guiding them on a journey through dispersed, diffuse time.
Above the interface: how do humans sense that they are being absorbed into the system?
Below the boundary: who is doing the training? Who is exercising power?
The sacredness of the daily lies hidden within worn garments, tucked among loose threads, fibers, folds, and fraying edges. Every act of wrapping has the potential to become a subtle ritual. And it is possible that every winding of a thread is the gestation of a transient deity.
Trace the trajectories of words as they migrate across geographic coordinates, linguistic environments, and forms of presentation.
