The Pigeon behind A Pigeon 2
video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, in 悬 亭 video and sign language poetry series
with Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, in 悬 亭 video and sign language poetry series
with Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
At the ending bed we learn to breath through each other
poem installation, 2022
at Imaginary Z Gallery, Hangzhou, China
Curator and photo/j.t Imaginary Zpoem installation, 2022
at Imaginary Z Gallery, Hangzhou, China
film by Lou Lou Sainsbury
written and performed by Lou Lou Sainsbury, Raffia Li, Ada M. Patterson
Exhibited at Gasworks, Humber Street Gallery, Roodkapje and IFFR 2023.
Sometimes a feather
video,
6 min 19 secs, 2022, in 悬 亭 video and sign language poetry series
with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
悬亭 Hovering
video and sign language poetry series, 2021-2022
Nature is never outside us. All corners of the urban space have long been inseparable from our bodies. Refusing the human/nature division means that we need to be in constant conversation with the more-than-human world, and keep inviting other movements into us: becoming otherwise, and in this case, becoming birds.
In 悬亭 series, I invite my friends and collaborators Yanfei and Baizong to translate some of my bird video works into sign language, and it soon become a dance with the birds, and our collective choreography through which we expand and shape each other.
By watching/filming the steps, pauses, dives, gazes of birds, and transforming them into our own body through signing, could we inhabitie the birds? When our body is the study room to listen to nature, would we find other ways of communicating, encountering and being, would we start to remember the rituals of dreaming and transforming化物?
Yanfei
video, work in progress, 2022, with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
video, work in progress, 2022, with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Pigeon behind A Pigeon 2 video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, with Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
video,
6 min 19 secs, 2022, with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands
路 Road
鸟 Heron
video, 41 secs, 2021, with a heron in a park
鸟 Heron
video, 41 secs, 2021, with a heron in a park
Shaping words, Melting words
Body and language workshop, March 2022
with Jascha Blume, at Kunstinstituut Melly
Body and language workshop, March 2022
with Jascha Blume, at Kunstinstituut Melly
“Doesn't anyone know that the body starts and ends elsewhere?” Borrowing poet and Protactile educator John Lee Clark’s question, this workshop invites you to explore this interdependent “elsewhere” by holding space to the shapes and textures of words and languages, to move our body beyond the spoken or written, into the realm of the signed, touched, and otherwise sensed languages.
The workshop is lead mainly through gesturing, signing, and involves exploration of touching and sensing the borders between one’s own body and its surroundings, touching water, shaping and passing words/objects that people bring in and letting them melt and transform into other shapes, textures.
I invited Jascha to work on an American sign langauge and english poem together, and it became our ritual to bring in the participants into the signing space by passing the movements/signed words throughout our poem performance. The signed poetry is very different from its written form, but here’s an english transcript if you wanna take a look.
Curator and photo/Aqueene Wilson, Kunstinstituut Melly
Dutch sign language interpreters/Mira Geirnaert and Cornelie van Dijk
Dutch sign language interpreters/Mira Geirnaert and Cornelie van Dijk