The Cycle of Celebrations – Mapping Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner
‘Cycle of Celebrations – Mapping Chinese New Year’s Eve Dinner’
is an art project using digital technology to map the landscape of trans-national Chinese cultural identity. Chinese descendents from different countries, including Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago,
Hong Kong, Macau, China, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia and the UK, are invited to use digital cameras to document their dinner parties on Chinese New Year’s Eve. Via the Internet, the physical boundaries of geographically dispersed nations and time zones are fused, and information is shared. The project explores how such a traditional and fundamental event is varying in different places and family circles, and, although still maintaining a shared framework of Chinese culture, how a new generation of Chinese people perceives this already transformed and diversified tradition. It also shows the nature of the event as a cycle of celebrations crossing the boundaries of space and time.
Part of ‘node.l March ’06’, exhibited in The Nunnery Gallery, London, 2006
Video on monitor, video projection on wall and rice
Inside/Out exhibition
The site-specific video installations in ‘Inside/ Out’ exhibition displace and recontextualize the Galway Arts Centre’s exhibition spaces. The work plays with the dichotomy of internal/ external perception, as well as the notion of embodiment and boundaries. It explores the relationship between the inside/ outside polarity of the body and self.
Joint exhibition with artist Nora Maycock exhibited during Galway Arts Festival 2004 in Galway, Ireland.
Video projection on a latex screen and the wall on the stairs landing
“The culmination of Inside/Out, a joint exhibition by Nora Maycock and Wanda Yu-Ying Hu at the Arts Centre, features two understated but remarkably effective video installations by the latter. The engagement with the immediate architectural surround is particularly notable here and in Yu-Ying Hu’s video pieces, one of which alludes to the way we instinctively look to an outside from a contained space, and the other, a small coup-de-theatre, that plays ingeniously with our sense of touch and our perceptions of depth and scale by confronting us with a moving image of a living membrane. Surprise plays an important part here and too full a description would undo that, not suffice to say that Skin is a terrific work, really worth seeing.”~ Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 16th July 2004
Should I reveal what the differences are?
This project deals with the differences between East and West. The exhibition gallery is conceptually treated as a body/self. By positioning the light sources outside and within the space, the outside world (Western) and the inside world (Eastern) are implied in the two given spaces. The viewer’s movement and experience through the space, passing-by and looking-into the spaces, strengthen an act of revelation and discovery.
MA Fine Art Degree Show at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London in London, 2003
16mm clear film projection on a burning incense and video back-projection on a window
Micro-Macula
‘Touch and Go’ exhibition @Space 44, London, 2003
Video projection on a latex sheet
Collaborater: Nora Maycock
Station
This short film tells the story of the Station, an art gallery that is hosted in the old fire station of Bristol harbour. The interview with artist Louise Short, who runs the gallery, is the main soundtrack through which the conceptual and historic significance of the place is explained. The images of the station and its surroundings follow her explanations, although often using her words to open up unexpected directions.
This film was made as part of Viewing Architecture through a Lens – a co-production by the Independent Artists Network, the Architecture Centre and 90 Second Challenge to celebrate Bristol’s Architecture Week. It was sponsored by Arup and Arts & Business through Creative Bristol 2005, an initiative of the Bristol Cultural Development Partnership – Arts Council England South West, Bristol City Council and Business West.
Screened at Watershed, Bristol, 2005
SD, 4:3, 2005
I Forgot the Image of Movement
This short film, I forgot the image of movement, creates a dream-like layered imagery of a sci-fi city. It is filmed and edited directly on a Bolex 16mm B/W film camera inside Westminster tube station in London, being transferred to a video format and subsequently coloured.
SD, 4:3, 2003
I Remember the Sound of Raining
The short film, I remember the sound of raining, narrates two parallel journeys, one by bus and the other by tube, from Central London to the Cobden Club in West London, where the film was subsequently screened. It explores the subjectivity and ephemeral nature of our perceptions during travel in urban environments, as much as surreal associations (with roasted ducks hanging from shop windows in China Town) that we have in our daily life.
Screened at Cobden Club, London, 2002
SD, 4:3, 2002
Breathe in, breathe out
Created during COVID-19 pandenmic.