- Do you think about the life-span of your own works? If you do, please elaborate on your thoughts.
- Depends if the work is an on-going research or exploratory project or installation work. I tend to see them differently. Each exhibition is like a different reiteration for a project. But it could be a reincarnation when an installation is exhibited at different time. It is like an artwork (material/object/installation work) being dismantled, keep in storage - suspend in motion and revived again everytime you bring it out - giving it another chance to breathe. Sometimes, I would also imagine if the work is being discussed or featured in a publication, studies in form of text, writing or images, the work had taken a different life, a zombie or derivation of the soul/body perhaps?
- Assuming you can time travel, in what way would you like to re-encounter your works 100 years from now?
- My imagination is limited But In 100 years time, or perhaps even in the near future, I would like to think some of the (physical) installation work would take on a virtual form as 'reincarnation'. Or could be re-mediated in that sense: analog-> digital -> analog. And perhaps able to traverse these two analgo-digital dichotomy.
- As there exist various definitions of “death” in the case of a human being, how exactly would you define the state of “death” of an artwork?
- If we would play along with this metaphor of "death", I think the saddest state of "death" of an artwork or project is when there is no (known or unknown) potential of it to comeback - return even as a remake, reiteration, in archival form, or as certain form of data which allows reconstitution. Certain "death" is when something existed before, and no one knows, or will ever know or recall it again in future.
- Is there any particular work of your own you would like us to include in the “Mausoleum of Media Art”(*) at YCAM? In that case, what kind of work is that, and in what form do you think it should be “buried” here?
- Yes. It is an installation work. But I can only provide images of the work, and also some information of the object. I would like to think what it is the possibility of reviving an artwork 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now based on a limited amount of information - or perhaps we need a new form of mediated-shaman (a new art-spirit medium) to recall the haunt of an artwork.
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