The interactive installations that I create are augmented by stochastic audio and recontextualized objects, which give them a non-linear, theatrical nature that often extend beyond the fourth wall. As an immigrant and a flâneur who has traversed different continents prior to settling in New York, the composition of those interdisciplinary projects epitomizes my recollection of globalization, both its glories and misdeeds. I find solace in the unknown, ludicrousness in the authorities, and a sense of absurdity in the geopolitical demarcations that separate and differentiate people.
Unable to speak any vernacular, I adopted poetry as my mother tongue as a refusal of colonial and totalitarian languages. My work substantiates the ultimate inadequacy of linguistic systems, as well the inherent potency of sound per se. The quotidian auditory landscape is dissected and reassembled through the dynamic interplay of maximalist video collage, resulting in an immersive synthesis of experiential participation and observation, during which the viewers involuntarily situate themselves in the ongoing metaphor of a decentralized world.
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