Isaac Chong Wai at the exhibition Afterimage: New Media in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (25/04/2023)
Art West Gallery of University of Melbourne will host the group exhibition Afterimage from April 27 to June 23, 2023. Throughout the 20th century, China, Hong Kong and Taiwan have undergone enormous social, political and economic transformations, dramatically reshaping the conditions of everyday life for millions of people. The exhibition featured spanning the first generation of video art to emerge in the 1980s, through to transportive contemporary works of virtual reality.
In One Sound of the Futures by Isaac Chong Wai, every participant becomes part of the work. With the form of the performance serving as a metaphor for monuments in public sites, the artist employs the conceptual purport of contemporary art to give the public a chance to talk about historical memories of the future instead of creating an authoritarian, permanent monument.
https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/about/arts-west-gallery/afterimage/about-the-artists
Image: Isaac Chong Wai, One Sound of the Futures–Taipei, 2019, single-channel video, 9'29"