Title: A Music for TONKATSU (a document)
Year: 2010
Material: HD transfer to DVD
Time: 31 minutes and10 seconds
Music and Casting: HOSE
Live: February 6th, saturday, 2010
Follows are video stills only for now.
title: Walking Through
year: 2009
material: HD video transfered to Blue-ray, color, sound, list of the object in use
time: 55 minutes
camera: Xiong Xun
camera assistant: Ruan Qihui
Produced by Vitamin Creative Space
note: "Walking Through" captures the process of spontaneous reaction / improvised performance with various objects in daily use found in guangzhou, china. The video / all the process shot continuously for once by steady cam .
title: One Place to The Other, The Other to The One before (Shi Pai Village in Guangzhou).
year: 2009
material: HD video, color, sound, transportation bike, carton box, rope, wood
time: 26 minutes
bike operator: Qin Shifu
camera: Xiong Xun
camera assistant: Ruan Qihui
camera bike operator: Zhou Shifu
note: Event at Shi Pai Village, Guangzhou.
date: 10/29/2009
Produced by Vitamin Creative Space
note: This work was shot in an urban village, Guangzhou. The traditional area, which developed organically with tiny alleys and buildings, will disappear within a few years because of urban gentrification. A self-employed courier was asked to bring many empty boxes from one gate to the other gate then back to the original gate.»
title: a haircut by 9 hairdressers at once (second attempt)
year: 2010
material: HD video, two 11” x 8.5” drawings by hairdressers
time: 28 minutes
Location: Zindågi Salon, San Francisco
Production and Commission: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
note:
This idea for this piece came to me while walking around Toronto, Canada one day. Inspired by the many hair salons I encountered I began wondering “what would happen if I invited several hairdressers, with different backgrounds, to work together to cut one person’s hair?”
I revisited this idea in San Francisco, CA. Instead of three, I invited nine hairdressers to cut one model’s hair in this piece. I let the hairdressers work without interfering with the organic nature of the process. The hairdressers begin with a consultation, addressing the limits and scope of the cut. The hairdressers then discussed how to divide the task considering the carried skill sets of each person. This unexpected atmosphere of competition came into play and exemplified the difficulty of collaboration and the various ways people react in such a situation.