A centry-old conversation with an aging body
2025
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My grandma taught me to play the piano from a young age, using a very rigid teaching method. I hated the piano, but during my wanderings later in life, I unexpectedly rediscovered the charm of sound. This is a recording of me playing random notes at my grandma's house—a symbol of breaking free and echoing.
At the same time, a recording of a conversation between my mother and grandma plays in the background. I repeatedly recite the text from this recording, allowing those dialogues to reverberate through my body as a medium... These sounds intertwine, creating a symphony of care, attachment, and the desire to escape.
Age, or time, extends infinitely into the past and future through the medium of a person's body. This body is a space of time, where memories and life experiences related to it permeate and develop, flickering between light and shadow. Light, shadow, sound, and collective illusions overlap on the skin, casting stains and creases. Perhaps when you tell the story of an aging body, you are also listening to the murmured echoes from some future someone...
2025
performance
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My grandma taught me to play the piano from a young age, using a very rigid teaching method. I hated the piano, but during my wanderings later in life, I unexpectedly rediscovered the charm of sound. This is a recording of me playing random notes at my grandma's house—a symbol of breaking free and echoing.
At the same time, a recording of a conversation between my mother and grandma plays in the background. I repeatedly recite the text from this recording, allowing those dialogues to reverberate through my body as a medium... These sounds intertwine, creating a symphony of care, attachment, and the desire to escape.
Age, or time, extends infinitely into the past and future through the medium of a person's body. This body is a space of time, where memories and life experiences related to it permeate and develop, flickering between light and shadow. Light, shadow, sound, and collective illusions overlap on the skin, casting stains and creases. Perhaps when you tell the story of an aging body, you are also listening to the murmured echoes from some future someone...
when i left the house, i saw...
2025
vedio
As I walked out the door, I found myself curious about how I could see the house from the outside, so I looked for several locations to sneak in or be in the open to see my home.
At first, I didn't have any purpose but to go out to see, and in the process of doing this, I felt that my impulse may come from the fact that the residents of my community were very intrusive and snooping by unexpected visitors, and they repeatedly stressed with the security guards to strengthen the management to prevent the residents of the non-community from entering, and they raised this matter more often to the point of being a
little neurotic.
In this operation, I went out of this house and looked back, trying to enter or break into another space from a more light, funny, and soulful perspective than a prying eye, looking back at the previous space, the space where I was not present.
I made several attempts to find a way to view the house, among which the remote-controlled car was set up as a kind of
stand-in for me to see, its presence meant my absence, in order to explore what \"my absence\" saw in this space, and in the process of experimentation, I controlled it to rampage without seeing anything, like an ignorant and curious intruder, with the help of my mother, it saw the whole room I took away the ability to "see" out of the house, trying to observe and gaze at the house from the outside, and I left my disabled part in the house to gain its perspective in a relationship of help and care.
2025
vedio
As I walked out the door, I found myself curious about how I could see the house from the outside, so I looked for several locations to sneak in or be in the open to see my home.
At first, I didn't have any purpose but to go out to see, and in the process of doing this, I felt that my impulse may come from the fact that the residents of my community were very intrusive and snooping by unexpected visitors, and they repeatedly stressed with the security guards to strengthen the management to prevent the residents of the non-community from entering, and they raised this matter more often to the point of being a
little neurotic.
In this operation, I went out of this house and looked back, trying to enter or break into another space from a more light, funny, and soulful perspective than a prying eye, looking back at the previous space, the space where I was not present.
I made several attempts to find a way to view the house, among which the remote-controlled car was set up as a kind of
stand-in for me to see, its presence meant my absence, in order to explore what \"my absence\" saw in this space, and in the process of experimentation, I controlled it to rampage without seeing anything, like an ignorant and curious intruder, with the help of my mother, it saw the whole room I took away the ability to "see" out of the house, trying to observe and gaze at the house from the outside, and I left my disabled part in the house to gain its perspective in a relationship of help and care.
A mole leads a cat, an ostrich, and a snake（who midway transforms into a spider）to steal a bat's egg.
2025
Performance(the mole)
Metamorphosis: An Animal Theatre Workshop by Lea
2025
Performance(the mole)
Metamorphosis: An Animal Theatre Workshop by Lea
Practice becoming a mole
2025
Performance
Metamorphosis: An Animal Theatre Workshop by Lea
2025
Performance
Metamorphosis: An Animal Theatre Workshop by Lea
Dream
2022
Video
4'57
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2022
Video
4'57
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This project was created as part of my documentary course assignment during the COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai in 2022
In March 2022, Shanghai was hit by a COVID-19 outbreak caused by the Omicron variant. To implement the "zero-COVID" policy, the Shanghai government announced a citywide lock down on March 27. The lockdown was carried out in phases, with the Huangpu River's two banks being sealed off. Residents were required to stay at home, and the entire city came to a halt. This measure led to shortages of daily necessities, strained medical resources, and other problems. The absurdity of the policies resulted in many innocent deaths. Infected individuals were forcibly taken to makeshift hospitals with poor conditions, medical resources were wasted, and patients who truly needed urgent care were delayed. People developed mental health issues due to prolonged stress. During the lockdown, communities euthanized pets they feared might carry the virus. Some families were separated due to the forced isolation policies, with children and parents being torn apart.
As a university student in Shanghai, my life was also affected. When I heard the cries from afar—the innocent lives lost and the pain people were enduring—I felt the pain as my own.
I realized that politics, seemingly distant and out of reach, actually exists all around us. Although this is just a naive student homework, the creation process made me realize the importance of documenting and creating. It made me believe that everyone has the right to speak and preserve memories, and it made me want to become an independent creator and explore the theme of individual memory.
During the two months of lockdown in Shanghai, I was studying at a university in the city, and we were confined to the dormitory, unable to leave. I used a handheld camera to document life during the lockdown in my dormitory, which felt like a dream. I discovered that, in the face of such an absurd world, protest and anger might not be my voice. Instead, telling stories and creating lies became my way of confronting the absurdity
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