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‘Creature’ moves, exhibits own images
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“TAI Chi,” presented as part of the Jeffrey Shaw and Hu Jiemin Twofold Exhibition, is being shown at the Chronus Art Center. “Tai Chi” is a mixed media work that combines images with mechanical apparatus, forming an installation with the attributes of an organism. The device is made up of more than 220 human bone-like structures, which are scaled up in size.
The “creature” is free to slowly walk around the exhibition hall under the control of an automatic system. Sensors, which detect specific points in the space, control the trajectory of the installation.
Nearly 108 projectors beaming images from the past and present are installed inside the bones of the creature. The images have been processed and changed over time, like historical material that enters and leaves our memory. After being “filtered” in this way, the images are played back from the bones and form a narrative relationship with the slow movement of the creature.
Born in 1957 in Shanghai, Hu is one of the foremost pioneers of new media art in China. He started to experiment with new technologies in the 1980s. Hu’s intention is to illuminate the boundaries between the “passing-by” and the “going-on” and by doing so he sets viewers free to form a chronological way of seeing historical events but via a more accidental reconstruction.
From the use and presentation of materials, “Tai Chi” forms the basis of an experiment in how to transform an attraction implied by the work into a boundless imagination. For viewers, the physical presence of the work, the power implied in the slowly moving bones and motors, and the large quantity of video images interact with each other result in an integrated sense of the piece.
Date: Through November 28, 10am-5pm
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