Image: Adam Hsieh, 'Yours, the World's,' 2020, video still, image courtesy of the artist
Image: Adam Hsieh, 'Yours, the World's,' 2020, video still, image courtesy of the artist
The single-channel video installation Yours, the World's, grafting moving images on 35mm film into digital footage shot with webcam, investigates the subtle interaction between the private and public sphere, watching and watched, further questions the ownership of sexuality in the commercialised erotic culture.
The colour analogue video clip stages a discomforting observation over an inflatable sex doll, a symbol of sexual objectification, with black-and-white webcam recordings of various viewers and the sound of manufacturing machines in the background. From different spaces, they found themselves within the same frame, delicately delimited by concentric rectangles.
In the era of social media, performers visible in the frame often internalises the perception of the unseen audience, treating it as the predominant perspective of their body, which, in turn, naturally affirm the viewers' beliefs about sex/gender and intimacy. But who first introduced these concepts and shaped our desires?
CREDITS
Adam Hsieh (director/production/performer)
Pablo Molina Petrovich (performer)
Channing Bickford (performer)
Jim Nagae (performer)
Mao Qingqing (performer)
MEDIUM
Digital video, 1080p, colour, with stereo sound
Digital video, 1080p, colour, with stereo sound
DURATION
2 minutes & 5 seconds
2 minutes & 5 seconds
EXHIBITIONS
Athens Digital Arts Festival (2021). Athens, Greece. 20 Sep - 31 Oct 2021.
Patchlab Festival (2020). Kraków, Poland. 23 - 25 Oct 2020.
Ars Electronica .ART Gallery, Ars Electronica Festival (2020). Linz, Austria. 9 - 23 Sep 2020.
Athens Digital Arts Festival (2021). Athens, Greece. 20 Sep - 31 Oct 2021.
Patchlab Festival (2020). Kraków, Poland. 23 - 25 Oct 2020.
Ars Electronica .ART Gallery, Ars Electronica Festival (2020). Linz, Austria. 9 - 23 Sep 2020.