Tianyi is always in either a second-hand shop or on second-hand sale apps where she encounters found objects, images and footage (and she never feels bored). Her love for used/ collected/ found objects originates from, instead of nostalgia, a haunted feeling experienced in the contemporary days as the past has not been shed away while our world keeps moving, or in fact it can never be...
As the Wind Passes by the Surface of Your City_ Performance
As the Wind Passes by the Surface of Your City_ Performance
2023
Site-specific installation, performance, sound, video documentation
2'14"
Part of “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” 24h Marathon line up initiated by Soupspoon Collective, at Rib Rotterdam
'As the Wind Passes by the Surface of Your City' captures the essence of urban whispers and discarded stories, unfolding where time converges with fragments of the street. Ninngouu presents a live performance/filming process on-site. Through film and poetic narratives, they attempt to give voice to the ghost held by street debris.
Text and vocal by Beth Wong
Performance by Tianyi Zheng and Man Pan Lau
Video, lighting and sound by Te Petchara