Acting
Josh-awan Bulman details some highlights of the Zhuang Alliance Group's Style Guide.
i-485 (Vanishing Point) is a document-zine, and a (desktop) performance performed over several zoom meetings during the pandemic. It investigates a friend’s green card marriage that took place in Las Vegas back in October 2019. Photographic images are arranged, juxtaposed and attached to the i-485 form, a form designated to be used by a person in the United States to apply for lawful permanent resident status.
[GE, 1626) conducts a mathematics-like exercise and observation. Filmed somewhere in the Chicago landscape, through a meticulous study of sound and speed, it describes a border between industry and nature, subtle and violent.
Manipulation of a fragment from the past. A study and an improvisational description of the “forwardness (of time)." Initially, it suggests a form of development and passage, but the presence of sound, the glass, and its reflections denote a physical separation in the space, alluding to a "preservation" akin to that of a laboratory or an aquarium. Rather than limiting itself to a binary opposition, the work attempts to discuss a perplexity that exists between what can be controlled and what cannot.
Sir Georg Solti was a conductor and a long-serving music director for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. After his death, the city of Chicago built a statue of him in the park outside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. This work begins with an observation of the statue's right ear and documents the ambient sound of its location.
