Youjia Lu
(present) No.1: enduring (non-place)
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June 2020
29
Jun
2020
3
Jul 2020
Night Screen
(present) No.1: enduring (non-place)
Youjia Lu
29
June 2020
29
June
2020
3
July 2020
Night Screen
(present) No.1: enduring (non-place) is a reiteration of a video experiment (present) No.1 which I did in 2019. Employing the method of ‘Super(im)position’ 1 , a video technique I developed through my ongoing artistic research, the video experiment invokes the question: how to seize the presence of the non-existence in digital video? This video was filmed as a documentation of my video experiment (present) No.1 (when I tested at the Photography Department at Victorian College of the Arts in 2019). The video experiment itself was devised to be shown as a two-channel video projection to enable the stroboscopic effects from the flickering light (and to give presence to the ‘gaps’ which are often considered as ghostly non-existence in digital video medium). The current spatial and temporal conditions offer me a unique opportunity to repurpose this documentation video. Video medium captures and encapsulates the (virtual) space and time in which the experiment we observe was (actually) taking in place. Through the gallery window, there might exist an extra dimension of space and time, an encrypted (non-place), where nobody is present, yet everybody is given presence.
(present) No.1: enduring (non-place) is a reiteration of a video experiment (present) No.1 which I did in 2019. Employing the method of ‘Super(im)position’ 1 , a video technique I developed through my ongoing artistic research, the video experiment invokes the question: how to seize the presence of the non-existence in digital video? This video was filmed as a documentation of my video experiment (present) No.1 (when I tested at the Photography Department at Victorian College of the Arts in 2019). The video experiment itself was devised to be shown as a two-channel video projection to enable the stroboscopic effects from the flickering light (and to give presence to the ‘gaps’ which are often considered as ghostly non-existence in digital video medium). The current spatial and temporal conditions offer me a unique opportunity to repurpose this documentation video. Video medium captures and encapsulates the (virtual) space and time in which the experiment we observe was (actually) taking in place. Through the gallery window, there might exist an extra dimension of space and time, an encrypted (non-place), where nobody is present, yet everybody is given presence.
Youjia Lu
Youjia Lu is a video artist and researcher. She completed a PhD at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, where she received a Melbourne Research Scholarship and the Academic Assistantship Program 2019-2020. Her research explores how to evoke an immediate experience of an indeterminate Self through digital video art practice. Her ongoing artistic experiments test video’s capacity to digitally manipulate time, create illusory superimposed images and induce strobe effect in projection space. Lu has presented her PhD research ‘Indeterminate Self’ at conferences such as the Visual Science of Art Conference in Italy (2018) and Belgium (2019), Digital Cultures in Germany (2018), European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts in Greece (2019).