Autocorrects

2023, 03:03, three-channel video installation

16mm film transferred to HD

A voice narrates in reminiscence of downtempo beat music in the Chinese speaking music industry from the early 90s; a genre heavily influenced by earlier movements from the US and Europe.

Working with the genre’s tropes, the song starts with a thunderstorm and a telephone ring, and directly cuts to another sample: a found interview with a Western music producer.

As the monologue slips in between memories, app chats, descriptions of violent tools and protest slogans, the I and U are never fixed, as they traverse through offenses, sensations, and shifts...

While the video channels display fleeting images recorded in transitional spaces such as airports and hallways, as words are laser-engraved into the celluloid of the film—questioning function...

Commissioned by Kevin Space and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo