You Still Have Something of The Ghost About You

ctrl+v, 2020
Beijing Poetry Festival, Beijing Sound Art Museum, 2023
Shanghai Biennale, Emerging Curator’s Project, 2023
Macau International Art Biennale, 2025

The cento-film "You Still Have Something of the Ghost About You" was shot in the hauntingly empty casinos during the COVID-19 pandemic in Macau, China after I left government quarantine and realized I’d stumbled into the underworld. The polyvocal collage slips the viewer into an otherworldly, post-COVID globalized hypnosis: interweaving strangely prescient texts from Chinese and Western epics such as Dream of the Red Chamber, Journey to the West, Beastiary, Dante’s Inferno, and contemporary texts such as John Cage’s X, and Gu Cheng’s Ying’er, to journey into the afterlife of forgetfulness.

Viewers can walk into the ethereal projection, disrupting the realms of life/afterlife, boundaries between digital and dream.