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...
Tie-up-loose-ends
2022 Performance work with the collective BTCY Chao-Chun Huang, Beth Wong and Yuqi Wang
Performed on 1st Oct 2022 in DIHAN Happening in Groningen, for 20 mins. The performance focused on the materiality of cable ties, which we find interesting as they can be functional as well as metaphorical. They are commonly found in our daily life, on construction sites, and in exhibition spaces. But also on the roadblock made by protesters, and at the hands of the arrested. During the performance, we explored how cable ties restrain, reshape or transform our bodies. By amplifying the repetitive zipping and breaking sound, it was just like never-ending fights.
