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PACKAGED GOOD (2019)
Packaged Good (2019) is an audio-visual installation featuring a large acrylic container filled with water. The far facing panel of the container is layered with a LED wall that displays a looping video of an androgynous Asian body writhing in liquid space as a light source rotates around it. Using neural networks, the face is then swapped out with a multitude of other Asian faces – both male and female.
Soundtracked by an original score by Lord RAJA, the film follows a protagonist in three acts of birth, life, and death – battling opposing forces within an inescapable space.
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YELLOW PERIL (2019)
The film is projected onto a steel frame filled with water. A manipulated version of the original Portraits of America soundtrack - also the score of Disney’s Epcot fireworks show - is timed to the appearance of each paragraph in the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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YELLOW (2018)
A site-specific installation at the corner of Wooster & Canal Street in Chinatown, NY.
As an artist, I am infatuated with specificity – this being site specificity and cultural specificity. I believe it is the duty of both the artist & audience to articulate and perceive where the work lies, in respect to both socio-geographical space & cultural identity.
In respect to my own identity, my work allows me to barter with my audience; we enter into a transaction of understanding which centers on both place and being.
Upon encountering YELLOW, there are two principles to note:
1. The piece occupies an appropriated space within a historically Eastern neighborhood, within a Western society.
2. As a participant in this work, you are likely shaped by Western semiotic systems – and that has defined your perspective.
With this work, I aim to challenge stereotypical notions of Eastern & Western kitsch. By pitting the two sensibilities against one another, they work to assault the senses.
AΩ (2014)
Steel, Wood, Water, Digital Projection – Axcess Art at Gowanus Print Lab (New York City)
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T.I.N.Y. (THE INTERACTIVE NEW YORK) AV INSTALLATION (2013)
A site-specific interactive audio-visual installation by Garson Yu of yU+co (Hollywood, CA) with 8 projectors, 8 audio inputs, over 20 audio easter eggs, and 36 freight crates at the Marina @ P57 in Chelsea, NYC. Visitors are thrown into an interactive experience with a looping 15 minute narrative that can be manipulated using one of eight microphones placed throughout the installation. As the NY Unit Director, I directed the footage used in the installation that was compiled and edited in LA and 3D mapped in NY.
– Time Out