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Solo exhibition

Objects of Fantasy

幻想物

Date
2013.05.08–06.13
Venue
Cultural Institute at King’s College LondonLondon
Curator
Zhan Xuhua

Exhibition structure

Exhibition dossier

The exhibition brings together consciousness, media self-narration, brain-computer interfaces, the life of manufactured objects and dismantled painting. Technology is not an end in itself but a way to alter established relations among objects, images and viewers.

Works and projects

05 entries
Electricity

Electricity

2009

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Brain activity produced while imagining an impossible project is converted to direct current and sealed in a battery; consciousness remains unreadable but exists as energy.

The Narrative of a Stack of Paper

The Narrative of a Stack of Paper

2013

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A 175-hour papermaking process becomes 15,136,728 frames printed back onto roughly 901 sheets of bark paper, allowing paper to narrate its own production.

Line

Line

2012

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A casually drawn curve becomes a visual sequence for a brain-computer interface; viewers who watch it produce a brainwave matching the original line.

Breathe—TV Set

Breathe—TV

2006

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A television casing rises and falls as if breathing, turning an everyday device from a controlled tool into an object with signs of life.

A Painting — Landscape

A Painting—Landscape

2009–2010

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Brushstrokes are peeled layer by layer from the canvas and dispersed through the room until the canvas is empty and painting becomes a viewing process.

Installation views

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