If the Moment Came
Wired glass window, micro controller, wood, projector , solenoid
video loop: 1 min, 3 sec
When I was doing a field recording in Admiralty during the Occupy Movement, I saw a few boys playing kendama near their campsites. I was attracted by the sound when the ball hit the wood handle in a quiet space ( which was used to be a central business district) and their concentration. I figured that the trial and errors through practicing kendama is similar to what the students were undergoing to pursue universal suffrage. I linked kendama with an incident that a window of the Legislative Council was smashed, to represent the two forces. I reposition this two objects to depict my feeling about the spirit of students (kendama) facing the power (wired glass window) which is being used as a metaphor of the authority.
The title If the Moment Came is a conditional phrase which is used for condition that is unreal. The ball of kendama is thrown up, hit and open the wired glass window, which soon closes again. Fantasizing about the moment of breaking free from the forces, the ball hits the window persistently, but in vain.
Fabric, custom electronics, motors
2022
Commissioned by Tai Kwun Contemporary
Curator: Erin Li
Fabricator: Tung Wing Hong
Hesitation grips me
Camera Obscura, latex, metal, acrylic, wheels
2018
Comissioned by Hong Kong Jockey Club and ifva
Hesitation grips me adapts the optical phenomenon derived from the camera obscura with a structure of dark chamber to depict the condition of hesitant to contact with the outside world. The image of the outside world falls into our eyes through the lens. The changes of the internal structure brings about images that wander between the thin line of blurriness and sharpness, catching and releasing .
valve, titanium heating coil, linear slide, metal, LDPE tubing, projector , micro controller
video loop: 7 min, 9 sec