"I am falling in Hate with you"

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Watch video clip for "I am falling in Hate with you"

Once upon a time, I had been sort of fooling around with an anonymous guy, and as you know, it didn’t turn out pretty. Being heartbroken in the other country isn’t the funniest thing in the world; I even couldn’t go to any karaoke bar in Chicago to express my sorrow by singing heartbroken Chinese love songs. Anyway, I needed to get a closure for myself without getting in touch with this guy again, so I decided to start my low-profile/ bitter-sweet revenge. I made a pile of paper stripes said “I’m falling hate with you” (I know I didn’t do the sentence right, but you have to understand that I didn’t speak English as well as I do right now, and I paid my whole attention to my REVENGE without being aware of the typo), and stuck them all along the way from my place to the guy’s place.

One month later, I tore off all the paper stripes on the street and still feel comforted by my idiotic action.

"GET A ROOM"

"GET A ROOM" 地鐵版影片連結看這邊 /VIDEO CLIP FOR GET A ROOM (building version)
展場版本影片看這邊/Get A ROOM (gallery version)_

Video installation, projected on the windows of two opposite buildings that CTA trains go through between them. No audio, slow motion.
 
錄像裝置 (無聲，慢速播放)，影像投在兩棟面對面大樓的窗戶上，芝加哥地鐵會從兩棟樓之間穿越。

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What I did here was setting up 2 video cameras on each side of a bed to document interaction between a couple that lied down on the bed.

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These 2 footages (of lover 1 & lover 2) are synchronized in my video installation “Get a Room”; both of them are played in slow motion without audio part.

 The next step was figuring out where and how I want to show this installation. My new boyfriend Robert (at that time), who only tried to please his new girlfriend by helping her doing her project, later realized that his image would be projected on a building window.

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Version 1, on the building:

It’s a very site-specific installation, which located around Adams & Wabash CTA station. The station sits between two school buildings belonged to SAIC, they are called as Sullivan Building and Sharp building. Anyway, what I want to do here is project each video on one of each building’s windows across to each other, so the couple ‘s images could be face-to-face. In that case, the CTA trains could go through between the couple’s image, and the passengers in the cars would run into a enlarged private scene unexpectedly.

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Version 2, in the gallery:

This is easier to explain than the building version, instead of projecting two videos on the windows, they are projected on the walls in the gallery across to each other, in smaller scale. I also experiment with the shape of different interior space.

你要去哪裡？ Where are you going?

你要去哪裡？ Where are you going? 影片連結看這邊/ (here>>) "where are you going" video clip

特別感謝 Cindy Mei (梅慶芳)幫忙拍攝照片
Special thanks to Cindy Mei for Documentation

這是我修的課“游擊隊藝術”的作業，我走在街上，看到有人在等車或等人或站在原地，我就會過去問他可不可以讓我用粉筆把他們的影子畫下來。畫完影子以後，我會標記出日期跟時間，還有他們要去的地方或他們在等什麼。

This is my assignment for "Guerilla Art" class. I walk along the street, asking people who seem to wait for something or stay on the spot that if I could trace out their shadow or not. After getting their permission, I would trace out their shadows, mark date and time, and write down where they are going or what they are waiting for by chalk.

車車親一個 Besos for Trains

車車親一個影片連結請看這邊/ HERE>> Video clip for "besos for trains"

Go to CTA station, put on your lipstick and kiss a stranger sitting behind the window.

Across the Universe

Across the Universe 影片連結請看這邊/video clips for across the universe

觀眾躺在滑板上，從裙子下溜過去。
他們可以選擇在裙子裡面待多久，並提供照相機讓觀眾在裙子裡面照相或錄影。

I would put on my hoop skirt with a string light installed inside it, stand near the entrance, and let my participants lie down on the skateboard. They have to go through under my hoop skirt. They can choose how long they want to stay inside the hoop skirt. Then I would hand them some props such as camera to take photos etc. After struggling through my legs, they would go through a transparent tunnel with a sentence “You Are Reborn” stuck on its top.