8 Gestures: Lost In Transrelation, performance video八種姿勢:關係之間の走失記
8 is a number of infinite possiblities, like seeds, it manifests in different lands, environments, traveling thru varieties of emotional mental zones.
"8 Gestures" are these manifestations related to somantic body-social-behaviors-psychology of identities. Or more appropriately, shifting identities.
Playing with words, images, explore the distance and intimacy between self and self, self and others, and that of humans and virtual reality such as media news that these days, we incorporate into our daily life as a vital part of our identities without much thinking.
Through relationships, be it with ourselves or with others, friends or lovers or family or strangers, every day we live in these and constantly define and refine who we are.
videos stories, verbal or nonverbal, of identities crossing and counter-cross: Mixed footages from documentary style mingles with fictions based on personal stories:
interviews of Japanese immigrants and expats groom-to-be to Germany, Turkish ice-cream seller living in Taiwan, news footages, a Taiwanese groom-to-be marrying a German bride and soon imigrating far away to his homeland, an anonymous traveler journey to China-HongKong-Taiwan, a Taiwanese immigrant first day landing in San Francisco, group of mixed internationals crammed in a small ktv room in the big city to have one fleeing moment of singing karaokee together and may never seen each other again, dancing bodies of a nameless man and woman covered with texts of calligraphy, undressing as their second layer of identities being stripped off unveiling in front of our eyes.
These videos, when put into tv or other screens, are also symbols of suitcases: suitcases of memories we have, where we are from, suitcases of where we are going to, and these boxes also used in our daily life to continuously store the present.
they echo the interplay between living human existance and the video virtual existance, illustrating the complex layers of these shifting identities in our modern world
8 is a tribute to Fellini's film 8 1/2 women, and Lost in Transrelation is tribute to Lost in Translation by Sophia Coppola. Vastly different in visual language, this is a alternative day-to-day honest look at our life thru varied zons of desires in ever-changing realities.
~videos shoot in 2010, except the first vid which was shoot during my stay in Salzburg(2005-2008) then re-edited
all videos shot, concept, partial performance, direction by Del
thanks all my friends that have supported me to make this happen together : ) ~
*videos shoot in 2010, except the first vid which was shoot during my stay in Salzburg(2005-2008) then re-edited, all videos shot, concept, partial performance, direction by Del*
posted by Delphine Mei @ 3:53 PM
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