Digital Residency - Weave the Waves

Weave the Waves is a two-person collaborative project inspired by a riddle and embodied childhood game - one kid writes a Chinese character with a fingertip on another kid’s back, while the second kid tries to remember the trace of the fingertip and guess what character is, then repeat the trace back to the first person.

Having gone through years of isolation during the pandemic, Qirou and Zhizi find a new charm of their childhood game. As they live on different continents and cannot meet physically, like most people do, they inquire: when art (and friendship) has to move online, can we find ways of imaginative understanding and interaction with the other, in affective ways through online art-making? By using a webpage as the canvas, Qirou initiated the project with a soundtrack that functions as a riddle that Zhizi has to interpret, based on the affective response she perceived. Zhizi would create a work based on her interpretation of the soundtrack and sent it back to Qirou, who would interpret and respond to Zhizi’s work. The interpreting and creating process will then loop between them. This project was a participation in digital art residency that’s organized by En Masse and Artengine in 2020.

“编织潮汐” 是一个始于2020年8月的双人合作项目。通过杨绮柔与王芷子的合作，这个艺术驻留项目主要探索在COVID-19隔离期间，人的身体感知如何渐渐被削弱。基于追忆一个他们童年猜谜语游戏的方式，他们试图找回已丢失的知觉。通过触碰屏幕，如何感知他者的温度? 从何时开始，我们的手不再允许去感受之前它所感受的...