Sound installation (Damaged hard drives, recycled plastic pellets, speaker, mixer, cables, multimedia)
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
This works extends the authors ongoing engagement and attunement of natural, industrial and electronic ambiances, as a long term shared effort to trace a new cosmic ontology and allegory of contemporary society. In this work, we listen to the corrupted mechanical movements of a collection of malfunctioned hard drives from the past 20 years. Their inner movements, gestural traces and physical memory reveal an invisible soundscape of inner life.
Installation view of BreathCultivating. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation view of BreathCultivating. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
4K video, Speakers
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
To solve the problem from a computer science point of view, the art of mechanical recursion comes into play. Whether you are a robot, cat, or human, the past, present, and future ways of ascending a staircase are all governed by patterns the Fibonacci numbers.
That is only if we assume a linear causality with preset behavioral rules. In CultivatingSteps, we seek to explore different nonlinear ways of taking a staircase, the notion of recursivity, and wider cultural and material contingencies associated with cultivating steps.
CultivatingSteps, Courtesy of the artist
Installation view of CultivatingSteps, Courtesy the Artist, Photo: Chi-Yu Wu
4K video with sound, installation
12 min
Courtesy of the artist
乘著風雨聲調潮起潮落，你來我往，掀起一陣無形風波。
一葉晶舟在搖搖晃晃的動態平衡中，飄移，流動，互存共生的生存狀態。
Semiconductors are essential infrastructure for building the future, and in this continuously shifting and modulating world, Taiwan, as a semiconductor hub, is an epitome of the global technology production. Technical objects are produced, exhausted, eliminated, and reborn here, and all of which are inextricably linked with people’s lives. Extending from the artist duo lololol’s long-term iterated observations and responses on the phenomena of natural, industrial, and electronic environments, the collective applies everyday scenarios from their surrounding urban landscapes and uses a multi-narrative audio-visual video installation to regulate the dynamic relationship between technical objects and human beings and to organically imagine the technological reality behind semiconductors on both global and local scales.
Along with the wind and sounds of the rain,
tides get high and fall Low,
setting off an invisible storm, as you come and I go.
A wafer bearer sways in dynamic balance,
drifting, floating in symbiotic coexistence.
Artist Talks: https://youtu.be/w1Yb-XmONok
Still of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO
Video and sound installation (Aquarium, plants, lights, performance, screen)
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artists
‘Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box’ was developed as a collaboration between lololol and Liam Morgan.
Commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center and presented in Taipei Arts Festival 2020.
在演出中，一股靈性能量瀰漫整個空間，藝術家透過將心電圖裝置接上植物葉片，並重新詮釋所產生的波形，試圖以新薩滿的身份與植物的靈魂對話。雖然將心電圖接上沒有心臟的植物似乎偏離了常規脈絡，但波形的韻律、環境聲響與影像彼此呼應，引導觀眾進入一個獨特的、賽博龐克風格的神祕冥想氛圍。漂流是在航行中偶然遇見的事件，卻能帶來意想不到的經驗與感知。lololol 探索其想像光暈的廣度，其模糊性與開放性創造了新體驗的可能。
—— 濟州雙年展策展總監 Kang Jeauk
Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box: Revisited is a work that partitions a synesthetic space, drawing inspiration from the vague mental images one experiences while contemplating nature. Screen images, artificially installed plant pots and water tanks, and images projected by projectors intermingle with light, video, sound, and even the physical properties of objects. They rely on imagination fueled by the transformations of images and their unexpected combinations. The performance, in particular, emanates a spiritual energy that envelops the space. By attaching an electrocardiogram to plant leaves and reinterpreting the resulting waves, the artist attempts to communicate as a neo-shaman, channeling the spirit of a tree. While attaching an ECG to a plant without a heart deviates from the usual context, the rhythm of the waves, the ambient sound, and the video sequence correspond with each other, guiding the audience into a unique, cyberpunk-esque, mystical atmosphere of meditation. Drifting is an event encountered by chance during a voyage. However, it allows for unexpected, rich experiences and sensory perceptions. The images explored by lololol are measured by the vastness of their imaginative halo. Their vagueness and openness create opportunities for new experiences.
—— Jeju Biennale Curatorial Director, Kang Jeauk
Directed by Xia Lin, Sheryl Cheung and Liam Morgan
Sound Composition, Live Performance: Sheryl Cheung
Cinematography: Liam Morgan
Actor: Shen Xin-Ru
Courtesy the Artist and Jeju Biennale.
Doumentation of Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box: Revisited Live performance. Sound Performance: Sheryl Cheung.
Courtesy the Artist and Jeju Biennale.
Courtesy the Artist and Jeju Biennale.
Video and sound installation
14 min
Courtesy of the artists
‘Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box’ was developed as a collaboration between lololol and Liam Morgan.
Commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center and presented in Taipei Arts Festival 2020.
Sound Composition: Sheryl Cheung
Cinematography: Liam Morgan
Actor: Shen Xin-Ru
Installation View of Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box: Revisited. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box: Revisited. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Sun Moon Lake is a Concrete Box: Revisited. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Video and Sound Installation (HD color, 13mins)
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
In 2022-2023, artist duo lololol and Shin Hanagata began an exchange of dialogue and experimentation with mutual interest in bodily evolution and ecological dynamics between humans, machines, and nature. In 2023, they collaborated on the performance ‘Mt. Jade is in Metamorphoses’, which was presented at the rooftop garden of the Taipei Performing Arts Center. The work ‘Mt. Jade is in Metamorphoses: Nonlinear’ featured in this exhibition is a video installation derived from the performance.
In the video, a person/tree moves slowly, searching for survival resources within an artificial landscape. The image of this symbiotic being is overlaid with visions of historical plant specimens from the Japanese colonial period. The intertwining narrative of past and future reimagines how the energy of our land infuses into memories of tomorrow.
Film: Xia Lin
Performer: Shin Hanagata
Sound: Sheryl Cheung
Camera: Mark Lee, Xia Lin
‘Mt. Jade is in Metamorphoses’ was developed as a collaboration between lololol, Shin Hanagata and Wang Yu-Jun. Commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center in collaboration with Kyoto Art Center, 2023.
Photo courtesy of Treasure Hill Light Festival, photo credit: Blackbird Imagine Studio
Photo courtesy of Treasure Hill Light Festival, photo credit: Blackbird Imagine Studio
Photo courtesy of Treasure Hill Light Festival, photo credit: Blackbird Imagine Studio
Photo courtesy of Treasure Hill Light Festival, photo credit: Blackbird Imagine Studio
Photo courtesy of Treasure Hill Light Festival, photo credit: Blackbird Imagine Studio
Daily capture, generative images, digital print
A set of ten images, each measuring 40x40cm.
在不能出門的日子，每天下午5:30夕陽照映在磨砂玻璃窗上。專家將夕陽拍攝下來，日復一日檔案在累積的噪音之中慢慢變化，於有序與無序的過程之中回憶新的風景。
In 100 years, the job of a shadow expert is to decipher original forms from their shadows. In order to make the world feel a bit more real, they scavenge through various files mining for shades and traces to do their job.
On days they could not go out, the experts photograph the imprint of sunsets that shine on their frosted window glass every 5:30pm. Over time, these image files slowly accumulate noise and change, and remember unknown landscapes between order and chaos.
Installation View of Shadow Expert. Courtesy the Artist and Solid Art | Photo: ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Shadow Expert. Courtesy the Artist and Solid Art | Photo: ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Shadow Expert. Courtesy the Artist and Solid Art | Photo: ANPIS FOTO
Herbal Medicine, Score, Experimental Music
Original version
Dimensions variable
Commissioned by Ting Shuo Hear Say
Courtesy of the artist
The dragon submerges into turbulent waves to ease troubled waters. The dragon as cinnamon twigs, as ephedra, as peony root, as dried ginger, as asarum, schizandra, penillia and a dash of honey-fried licorice. An aromatic recipe that is at the same time mythological, medicinal, and revealing of a cosmological order, and in this world, a performative score is vivid, ambiguous yet tangible, constantly changing, guided by a calculation of botanical powers, a dynamic design to restore estranged morality, to qualm an emotional flooding in the lungs, to shudder the sorrow that sprouts in stagnated waters, to keep dexterity and flow and mobility of life. A view of the body, in which forms are implicitly inferred to by relationships, resonates with a specific kind of expanded listening first introduced to me by a Chinese medicine shop owner, who offers poetry as his preferred form of remedy after intuited reading of one’s emotional and physical body. A key term here is wen (聞), a rather open sensory concept that is fundamental in traditional clinical practices—to smell, to hear, to intuit, to catch wind of. Little dragon soup is an exercise of abstract scoring, sound, and kinetics that speak to the body as a micro-universe.
Installation View of Little Dragon Soup. ©Sheryl Cheung, Courtesy the Artist.
Installation View of Little Dragon Soup. ©Sheryl Cheung, Courtesy the Artist.
Performance documentation from Little Dragon Soup. ©Sheryl Cheung, Courtesy the Artist.
2021
VR 360 with sound
Dimensions variable
The Great Shift, Script
2022
Text
148x210mm
RGB, Raining
2022
Looped video
1920x1036 pixel
PressureField
2022
UV print on wood panel, hand-carved
90x45cm
FeintButterfly
2022
Video installation, mixer, repurposed speaker, cables
Dimensions variable
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This work is supported by Nusantara Archive, Ministry of Culture Taiwan at different stages from 2021 to 2022
此計畫以探索印尼電影導演迪亞古蘇馬（D. Djajakusuma, 1918-1987）於1958年所創作的黑白電影《火鞭》（Tjambuk Api）為起點，回應電影中的技術物的隱喻，以及地方智慧傳統儀式的新時代寓意和想像。
Future Tao: The Great Shift is a new virtual martial arts narrative that responds to the changing relationship of “the Great Shift” between the body, power and new technology during the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. It continues the project Future Tao launched by art collective lololol in 2017 and re-imagines the Taoist mind and body techniques through contemporary context.
The project takes inspiration from Indonesian Director D. Djajakusuma's 1958 film "Fire Whip" as a creative starting point to explore the periodic meaning of technological objects/users/local knowledge in the Malay archipelago culture.
The Great Shift, Script PDF
Reasach Article
Solid Art Interview
Artist Talk (begins at 43:55)
Installation View of Future Tao: The Great Shift. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Future Tao: The Great Shift, VR 360 with sound. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of FeintButterfly, video installation, mixer, repurposed speaker, cables. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of PressureField, UV print on wood panel, hand-carved. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of RGB, Raining. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
The Great Shift Workshop @Vernacular Institute, MX, Photo: Moss Piglets
Two-channel video, no sound
4min 30sec
2020
1:1, livestream screen-based performance, no sound
60mins
熯天熾地的即時影像劃破黑夜
在遠距傳輸中自由穿梭
生命如何在虛空中存在，或在空無之中聚集？
成為冷酷、陰暗或微小的存在
影子中的聲響層層堆疊，是誰在逐漸霧化？
我們在超越天地的表面探索彼此
像素在表面上呼吸擴張
To be of heat, of light, of expansion
Live images strike through the darkness In teleportation
How do beings be-in Or gather in nothingness
To be of coldness, of shadows, of contraction
The shadows, its song, layering, growing
Who, there, is turning into mist
On a surface beyond what is real and divine
We delve into one another's intentions
Pixels exhale and expand across the new perspective
Installation View of Surface Habitat. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Surface Habitat. Courtesy the Artist | Photo: Solid Art / ANPIS FOTO
4K video, Speakers
Dimensions variable
Courtesy of the artist
To solve the problem from a computer science point of view, the art of mechanical recursion comes into play. Whether you are a robot, cat, or human, the past, present, and future ways of ascending a staircase are all governed by patterns the Fibonacci numbers.
That is only if we assume a linear causality with preset behavioral rules. In CultivatingSteps, we seek to explore different nonlinear ways of taking a staircase, the notion of recursivity, and wider cultural and material contingencies associated with cultivating steps.
Installation view of BreathCultivating, 2021, 4K video, exciter, installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist. Photo: ANPIS FOTO
Installation view of BreathCultivating, 2021, 4K video, exciter, installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist. Photo: ANPIS FOTO