Category: 2022

Tapewo is my conceptual system based on dysfunctional, graphical, and symbolic tape. At its core is the interconnectedness of everything in the 3D world (our real world). “Wo” is my abbreviation of the world, and the pronunciation of “wo” means “I” and “me” in Chinese. Tapewo can be seen as tape + world, and can also be understood as the relationship between thing and me in Chinese semantics. It has become a way for me as a creator to explore the spiritual world and the real world in an artistic way.

 Currently on the Graduate Diploma my moving image works visualise the transition of the tape in different contexts through animation making：from abstract to concrete and finally back to abstract. There are five phrases :kong (nothingness), li (order), xiang (image), jie (being), xu (nihilism) in my film. As the viewer follows the changes of the image into the tape system, it will lead them to a spiritual tour. It represents the way I see and structure the art world. The idea of ​this project comes from my personal art education background. RUICONG XIE I studied printmaking in contemporary art for four years as an undergraduate, which was based on the reconstruction of visual graphics. I have researched and applied ‘’using collage thinking to make art‘’. I discovered that tape, which is functionally connected to the process of collage, can also be used as the subject of artistic creation. The moving image can also be seen as a collage on the timeline. In the end I combined the two to create Tapewo: a double collage.

Email: rileytu95@gmail.com

Instagram: @riileytu

Vimeo: vimeo.com/rileytu

With the idea of the Mandelbrot set, Tu demonstrates the originality of nature and the inseparable link between human and nature.

In this film, Tu seeks to blur the boundary of human body and landscape, and demonstrate the visual playfulness between them.

With the idea of the Mandelbrot set, Tu demonstrates the originality of nature and the inseparable link between human and nature.

MinKyeong Park connects white noise to the space where you can hear it and people’s emotions. The history of white noise is the history of technological modernity. White noise was originally only a loud noise, but engineers processed and designed the sound to convert it into a sincere sound of modern labor. ‘The worker generally doesn’t know this effect, doesn’t seem to hear the white noise generator, and unconsciously auto-processing is the exact proof that he obeys subordinate workplace ideology that can make him identify with machines.’ This fact is a strange and bizarre phenomenon that makes us just like machines. White noise was linked to stories such as emotions, groups, workers, and races, not just mechanical sounds to keep people focused on their work. The technical function of white noise affects their emotional aspects. It’s said to have improved a lot, but it’s still subtle and hidden, and it’s an uncomfortable phenomenon that continues to exist somewhere.

white is not anything really, not an identity, not a particularising quality, because it is everything— white is no colour because it is all colours …. The colourless multi-colouredness of whiteness secures white power by making it hard, especially for white people and their media, to “see” whiteness. This, of course, also makes it hard to analyse …. The subject seems to fall apart in your hands as soon as you begin. (Richard Dyer, 1997) 

Her work combines installation and sound. Several sculptures create a space where you can recognize and experience hidden white noise that you cannot usually hear.

Habibti Western is a coping mechanism , a shared safe space , a domestic space – but it is only a scene , a set in my movie . An anachronistic quest to move forward and backwards to find closure through the challenging and reinterpreting of notions of patriotism, chauvinism , symbolism and superstitions.  

Patch-working , piecing together into ritualistic hybrid functional objects within the space is how the scene is set in this home away from home . I merge different fictional cultures to shine a light on the power of cosmopolitanism.

This is a typical tradition chair from a fictive cosmopolitan place.

This is a typical tradition chair from a fictive cosmopolitan place.

Email: mluo001@gold.ac.uk

This is a projection screen. Create an ocean wave effect with paper. One side is used for projection, and the other side is decoration associated with the video.

Born into a family that took Buddhist funerals very seriously, Luo wanted to have her own way of saying goodbye to her grandmother. At the same time, she expresses her understanding of death in Buddhism through her works.

These ballrooms are open from early evening, mostly mid-aged people. They come after dinner or after work to have fun, socialize or digest food.

The dazzling colorful lights turn everyone’s skin pink. With the rhythmic pop music and ambiguous lyrics, seemingly, people’s relationship is entertaining and wild. 

As Baudrillard believes in his book Seduction, seduction does not seek deeper meaning, it always stays on the surface. Precisely because of its superficiality and meaninglessness, seduction is a game that dissolves hierarchical patterns in gender, power, and production.

Zhiqi Li’s grandparents used to buy her sugar paintings which are made using a spoon with melted sugar in it and draw zodiac signs out of the liquid sugar on a cold marble slab to solidify the sugar painting. Now, this street food art is disappearing in China. 

The sculpture is made of isomalt sugar and Huaqing ink which creates a translucent yet information-bearing surface, as a way to show the blurry memories and exhilarating nostalgia inside.

Email: huangxm84@163.com

Instagram: @blackblacktea

An installation of 5 pieces of textile works which feature stitching, embroidery and weaving.

A way I invite uncertainty into my daily life—-through haircut.

Identity is often taken for granted we tend to forget how complex and unique each one of us is and brainlessly sink in a society or lifestyle that has become a replica of another that has become universal.

Email: mati-araoz@hotmail.co.uk

Instagram: @mati_araoz_

Website: www.matiaraoz.com

A clip from a looped animation made out of hand printed cyanotypes.

Vibraphones and English horns playing MIDI scores created from the frequencies of micro currents in grey oyster mushroom mycelium.

Email: shirabrster@gmail.com

Instagram: @Shirabar91

Website: shira-bar.com

The image is from a video work titled ‘What comes to light’, which examines experiences of shame in regards to female sexuality and social media, connecting them to the act of photographing and floral. 

The image is from a video work titled ‘What comes to light’, which examines experiences of shame in regards to female sexuality and social media, connecting them to the act of photographing and floral.