Wind speed datasets from super typhoon Mangkhut are animated and projection-mapped on an installation made of a fallen tree.
In total, more than 55 000 trees felled on September 16, 2018, when Mangkhut rocked Hong Kong. A victim tree’s trunk is used as a screen for animations, telling the story of the raging storm, the damage done to the local ecosystem and reminding us about the destructive power of nature.
Part of the Blown Away Exhibition in Hong Kong
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Trunk Organ // Wunderkammer Exhibition in Guangzhou April 19-22
A tree attacked by an imaginary disease grows organs that can facilitate communication with humans.
Species that are biologically closer to humans are considered to be more intelligent, e.g., we always imagine intelligent extraterrestrial lifeforms with anthropomorphic features, although they might have different perceptions and a totally different scale.
Limited by our perceptions and our human-centred concepts we cannot think about plants as conscious beings or persons, despite the fact that they possess incredible capabilities like hearing, smelling, moving or reading our minds.
One day we might be able to modify our bodies and to create new senses in order to understand non-human entities like plants, animals or extraterrestrials and to question the belief of human supremacy.
Stills from “Creatures”, my new abstract animation short film
In 2018, I spent the autumn semester at the City University of Hong Kong, in the School of Creative Media as an exchange student. There, I had the chance to participate in Max Hattler’s course and develop my ideas into an abstract animation short film using my paintings, slices of fruits and photographs that I collected during my stay in Hong Kong.
Come and check out our screening on the 23rd of January!