I always joke that I am a person who could only exist in 2023. With my recent works, I feel that I am reaching out to explore what it means to explore or define an identity which is unprecedented. Without the limitations or fear of narcissism, or self-centeredness, I have decided to deeply indulge with what exactly it means to be someone that has maybe never existed, obviously literally but also racially and culturally. This is of course not a scientific statement, more a more intimate and serious examination of the self-satirization of my exoticized, mixed Asian American identity.
DISEUSE (2024)
“there was no displacing death, there was no overcoming without the actual dying. She says to herself if she were able to write she could continue to live.” -Dictée (1982), page 141
The struggle to exist in such a confusing world, the search over and over for whatever one is looking for. Cha wrote words and created images and sequences with this craving evident, with care and a passionate love for creating, communicating and living and feeling intensely.
I mean not to martyr cha or make her death a metaphor because it is not. She did not die willingly. Rather I hope to honour her work and intentions as a Korean American artist 40-50 years later, who sees deep similarities in our condition even in a world that seems worlds away from hers
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multi-media animated 5 channel video installation
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects, TouchDesigner
multimedia animated 4 channel video installation (9 minute loop)
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects, TouchDesigner
multimedia animated 4 channel video installation (9 minute loop)
Adobe Animate, Adobe After Effects