5:59 minute Two-channel installation written and produced by Yifan Jiang.
The two-channel installation comprises one screen playing the video normally while the other plays the same clip but in reverse. A zero-sum game describes a situation involving two sides, where one side’s advantage always equates to the other’s loss. In my backyard, I saw an insect curled up to drink a liquid coming from its own wound. Mesmerised, I tried to picture the incident in reverse. In that image, the animal was expelling parts of itself to patch up its wound. Thinking about the city that sat far away on the horizon, I imagined the same thing happening to an organism that we call our civilisation. In virtual spaces, we can move freely on the axis of time, events can be sliced up and reorganised, and actions can be undone and redone. Perhaps these old dichotomies aren’t as finite as they used to be, and instead, we need to take seriously futures that are fundamentally divorced from our present epistemological reality.
( Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
( Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark)