Presented by Chi-Wen

For That ·This Hu Ching-Chuan’s used a downloaded 3-D software to scan spaces with her mobile phone, producing fragmentary and blurry images by moving the lens arbitrarily when recording. Hu then put the images of different environments scanned at different times in a new, virtual, artificial space coordination. As such “that space and this space” becomes “here and now” and appears in the same virtual time-space.

The artist’s mother emigrated from Myanmar to Taiwan in pursuit of an ideal life. She often contacts her family who emigrated to United States on video call. After Hu taught them how to make panorama scans with their mobile phones, they scanned their local area and living space and sent the images to Hu via the Internet. Hu then juxtaposes those images with her living space in Taiwan. The voice in the VR video is a dialogue of ten years ago between her mother who has immigrated to Taiwan and her aunt who has immigrated to the United States and they still spoke in Burmese. They have not seen each others for a decade but keep in touch through technology on the weekends. Their daily conversations are shifting through different spaces in the VR world. “There” and “here “ become closer to each other yet still far away. The fragmentary and blurry images represent the real appearance of sense and memory.