Extraterrestriological Analysis (2024)

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This project is a multimedia performance consisting of a video, a stereo track (fixed media), and a performer
using a self-built string instrument (live electronics). By drawing a connection between the self-built string
instrument and the Chinese string instrument guqin, this performance triggers a series of questions: How do
we understand a musical instrument and a performance? How do we perceive the cultural connotations that
accompany identities? How do we break out of existing experiences and knowledge to establish
communication? What then is truly effective communication? At some point in the future, how will
extraterrestrial civilizations view our human civilization today (the early 21st century)?

I encapsulate these serious questions in an extraterrestrial narrative, combining a style of Mo Lei
Tau, creating an atmosphere that appears serious yet is filled with ease and humor. However, this atmosphere
is not about exaggerated radical deconstruction and destruction, nor is it about displaying awkward irony and
sarcasm. Instead, I engage in a process of multilayered storytelling, completing communication with the
audience. Misunderstandings, imaginations, furrowed brows, shrugs, and knowing smiles should all be
relaxed and moderate.