https://huhuhuliwei.com Hu Liwei Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:28 +0000 https://huhuhuliwei.com en https://huhuhuliwei.com/Moon-Vessel Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:18 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Moon-Vessel Night Vessel (Working Title) Single-Channel Video; work-in-progress <img width="2218" height="1600" width_o="2218" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e19a43e091d267387dad9710ef8542eec8799bd021643382f8e2aef2a805ffe/Screen-Shot-2024-12-30-at-2.16.32-PM.png" data-mid="228007820" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e19a43e091d267387dad9710ef8542eec8799bd021643382f8e2aef2a805ffe/Screen-Shot-2024-12-30-at-2.16.32-PM.png" /><img width="2378" height="1800" width_o="2378" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/720cd49bc27dffd8b8cf487637564293199d7fe73cd0e93f19dda725438a2511/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-9.32.47-AM.png" data-mid="228007814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/720cd49bc27dffd8b8cf487637564293199d7fe73cd0e93f19dda725438a2511/Screen-Shot-2022-11-01-at-9.32.47-AM.png" /><img width="2216" height="1600" width_o="2216" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d1f2baa8c917b58a9643a7ca3ca980ee14e651cbba36c5bc471415440b1bb667/Screen-Shot-2024-12-30-at-2.16.46-PM.png" data-mid="228007821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d1f2baa8c917b58a9643a7ca3ca980ee14e651cbba36c5bc471415440b1bb667/Screen-Shot-2024-12-30-at-2.16.46-PM.png" /> https://huhuhuliwei.com/If-She-Were-a-Barber Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:19 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/If-She-Were-a-Barber If She Were a Barber Three-Channel Video Installation; work-in-progress If She Were a Barber is inspired by a conversation with the artist’s mother: what if she hadn’t been a surgeon but a barber? Though the two professions seem distinct, they share medieval origins and tools—suggesting that structural violence persists despite different paths.&nbsp; <img width="2108" height="1581" width_o="2108" height_o="1581" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f5c54b23c4a418aadbf7db5a6445983d7c5984a319df6d73c91a34086c8412a2/Screen-Shot1.png" data-mid="228007831" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f5c54b23c4a418aadbf7db5a6445983d7c5984a319df6d73c91a34086c8412a2/Screen-Shot1.png" />Still; Super 8mm and Digital; wip https://huhuhuliwei.com/Intimacy-Surveillance Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:21 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Intimacy-Surveillance Intimacy Surveillance Real-time Interactive Video Installation; Fridge; Infrared Camera; 2022 "Intimacy Surveillance" explores situations when intimacy can be captured, staged, performed, or dehumanized. The body activates, holds, navigates, and manipulates intimacy, transferring vital signs as an image-making tool through interacting with an infrared camera placed in a fridge at 5 °C. <img width="3393" height="1909" width_o="3393" height_o="1909" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1247bd88c09b3d445a635975157062f50e58486e62c2374af81a797ecb24e4a/Intimacy-Surveillance_Installation-View.jpg" data-mid="228007835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1247bd88c09b3d445a635975157062f50e58486e62c2374af81a797ecb24e4a/Intimacy-Surveillance_Installation-View.jpg" /> 35mm Still of Installation Documentation; 2022 <img width="2402" height="1800" width_o="2402" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1bab11cf55bc0084d03d2c9f9143a736ceff208081016d5e6d85191ef828fe07/Intimacy-Surveillance_Still.jpg" data-mid="228007836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1bab11cf55bc0084d03d2c9f9143a736ceff208081016d5e6d85191ef828fe07/Intimacy-Surveillance_Still.jpg" />Video Documentation Still; 2022 https://huhuhuliwei.com/Can-I-Go-to-Your-House-to-Sweep-the-Floor Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:21 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Can-I-Go-to-Your-House-to-Sweep-the-Floor Can I Go to Your House to Sweep the Floor? (Cleaning Services were provided together with Wang Xiyang and Qin Yanan and cleaning robots) <img width="3630" height="2074" width_o="3630" height_o="2074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/761c0d7dcc453be39fcd000d0b52cfbb97b0bb3d07e2c22661fb8510e75d4885/Can-I-go-to-your-house-to-sweep-the-floor_Installation-View-cocopy.jpg" data-mid="228007852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/761c0d7dcc453be39fcd000d0b52cfbb97b0bb3d07e2c22661fb8510e75d4885/Can-I-go-to-your-house-to-sweep-the-floor_Installation-View-cocopy.jpg" />Installation View, Door-to-Door Cleaning Service, Robot Vacuums, Floor plans, Videos, 2021 “Can I Go to Your House to Sweep the Floor?“ provided door-to-door cleaning services to female residents of Lianshi using robotic vacuum devices. The robots learn the layout of these domestic locations, building memories of ‘home’. When transferred to the exhibition environment, the robots clean according to their remembered domestic service. Displaced from their familiar setting, crashing into one another they vocalize their sense of loss and confusion in an anguished “I can’t find my way home, come to help me.” <img width="3256" height="1860" width_o="3256" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/08038c5b91b8a1ece3b1e7317962bf8acd106b85e62a2ef49b652a50eecd916f/Can-I-Go-to-Your-Home-to-Sweep-the-Floor-_Installation-View_2.jpeg" data-mid="228007851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/08038c5b91b8a1ece3b1e7317962bf8acd106b85e62a2ef49b652a50eecd916f/Can-I-Go-to-Your-Home-to-Sweep-the-Floor-_Installation-View_2.jpeg" /> Installation View from the top <img width="3480" height="2160" width_o="3480" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72b206e8859583537d2efcc70b10aae0532f0454eff928861e86f02fd1e71486/Can-I-go-to-your-house-to-sweep-the-floor-_Floor-plans-copy.jpeg" data-mid="228007850" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72b206e8859583537d2efcc70b10aae0532f0454eff928861e86f02fd1e71486/Can-I-go-to-your-house-to-sweep-the-floor-_Floor-plans-copy.jpeg" /> Floor Plans Collected By Robots; Cleaning Routes <img width="954" height="522" width_o="954" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3569335598c876d35d5bc7da6a1161028d309061e813bd0cbb7114268c8f6fca/5f09af37ae61de24ffe0fffa4d5d6551.gif" data-mid="228007844" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/3569335598c876d35d5bc7da6a1161028d309061e813bd0cbb7114268c8f6fca/5f09af37ae61de24ffe0fffa4d5d6551.gif" /> <img width="954" height="522" width_o="954" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8f189f21efa3b446c292befa0bf766970ea6d1e09f1eea084228288e5387c0b/510e0dd059c291a4b39862d9baadc08b.gif" data-mid="228007846" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/d8f189f21efa3b446c292befa0bf766970ea6d1e09f1eea084228288e5387c0b/510e0dd059c291a4b39862d9baadc08b.gif" /> <img width="714" height="522" width_o="714" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28aac27db684ee4574bb5be06ef5dda287fb89e6e818a186e8130d2c93538c58/c80dcedafc52d7e0a6d6eb6a14858dd7.gif" data-mid="228007847" border="0" data-scale="75" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/714/i/28aac27db684ee4574bb5be06ef5dda287fb89e6e818a186e8130d2c93538c58/c80dcedafc52d7e0a6d6eb6a14858dd7.gif" /> Robot Vacuums working and generating floor plans Documentations of robot vacuums working <img width="954" height="522" width_o="954" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1213be79fd56fabdbe8f052d5750f861f62e685a2cfea8de2b8353ca4297d1d0/f8eaccb3972b36a4c2b4e86cc5d048cc.gif" data-mid="228007848" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/1213be79fd56fabdbe8f052d5750f861f62e685a2cfea8de2b8353ca4297d1d0/f8eaccb3972b36a4c2b4e86cc5d048cc.gif" /> In a local resident’s home <img width="954" height="522" width_o="954" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b17f39970e2b20e2ec49ce1907de080da9287c66ea002f5c4f1ff1f1822b890/0497293a8c4b20a9bf685603432b5c31.gif" data-mid="228007842" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/4b17f39970e2b20e2ec49ce1907de080da9287c66ea002f5c4f1ff1f1822b890/0497293a8c4b20a9bf685603432b5c31.gif" /> In a pet clinic <img width="954" height="522" width_o="954" height_o="522" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97b53119fa204daee6c55452c45ff09870967c041b324b18ebf30f597926b28d/9d60cadaf84504f81b6502e9c34d1839.gif" data-mid="228007839" border="0" data-scale="63" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/954/i/97b53119fa204daee6c55452c45ff09870967c041b324b18ebf30f597926b28d/9d60cadaf84504f81b6502e9c34d1839.gif" /> In a recycling station The view from a robot vacuum’s perspective <img width="379" height="213" width_o="379" height_o="213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdcd9e9e3e82b21daecf331f63b5e0b21ed8821c041ce669d7d247f49d2a7257/1cc46ee183f798daecc99d162711fd00.gif" data-mid="228007849" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/379/i/bdcd9e9e3e82b21daecf331f63b5e0b21ed8821c041ce669d7d247f49d2a7257/1cc46ee183f798daecc99d162711fd00.gif" /> &nbsp; <img width="533" height="300" width_o="533" height_o="300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5421b56b8d2a1979031692c8fdd48a1c41c24ce2060c3c0cd5317543fc2cad03/3fe3b288ff0691921300c75af34cf6e9.gif" data-mid="228007838" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/533/i/5421b56b8d2a1979031692c8fdd48a1c41c24ce2060c3c0cd5317543fc2cad03/3fe3b288ff0691921300c75af34cf6e9.gif" /> <img width="911" height="512" width_o="911" height_o="512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8dbf8ee917d72f3a05f9158f337d16bac8907f4f332d2871db7f8e83c18bd3cc/6f673c3efe677cf5bea8091e66a0af34.gif" data-mid="228007845" border="0" data-scale="62" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/911/i/8dbf8ee917d72f3a05f9158f337d16bac8907f4f332d2871db7f8e83c18bd3cc/6f673c3efe677cf5bea8091e66a0af34.gif" /> https://huhuhuliwei.com/zhu-mu-nong-The-Riverside Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:24 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/zhu-mu-nong-The-Riverside zhú mù nòng/The Riverside Super 8mm Film, 3 minutes, 2022 "The Riverside" constructs a document of the Lianxi River in still frames. Navigating the river's path towards the Grand Canal in Lianshi, the camera builds a narrative around the operation of memory in action within the tense landscape of historical excavation and urban development. <img width="2408" height="1800" width_o="2408" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb90b33ec0c6d9fcd236b757ef5fa7aea22b1abf355a50772336f8e1ce74e927/The-Riverside.jpg" data-mid="228007855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb90b33ec0c6d9fcd236b757ef5fa7aea22b1abf355a50772336f8e1ce74e927/The-Riverside.jpg" /><img width="2404" height="1800" width_o="2404" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/24889cd0be3975db5e7652e7730c3328a78a1fb9d75d4de8744d5b0fba0b4762/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-3.58.53-PM.png" data-mid="228007854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/24889cd0be3975db5e7652e7730c3328a78a1fb9d75d4de8744d5b0fba0b4762/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-3.58.53-PM.png" /> Film Stills https://huhuhuliwei.com/Elevator-1 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:25 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Elevator-1 <img width="2880" height="1624" width_o="2880" height_o="1624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5c22ec23fa0a988e4633a2eecf3a09d863233516c7524392af9fcf6daa5b8653/Elevator.jpg" data-mid="228007857" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5c22ec23fa0a988e4633a2eecf3a09d863233516c7524392af9fcf6daa5b8653/Elevator.jpg" />still from Elevator <img width="3168" height="1781" width_o="3168" height_o="1781" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9309893a354faea8489792ac0cf25e000f660c21c43aaf925956215cd00fc38/.jpg" data-mid="228007858" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9309893a354faea8489792ac0cf25e000f660c21c43aaf925956215cd00fc38/.jpg" />installtion view of Elevator, 2021 <img width="1416" height="981" width_o="1416" height_o="981" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a46f1306ea07e76264623eb40799d99e7167c85da6886b7739bc06140f5a75c2/Elevator_installation-view_2022.png" data-mid="228007859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a46f1306ea07e76264623eb40799d99e7167c85da6886b7739bc06140f5a75c2/Elevator_installation-view_2022.png" /> installtion view of Elevator, 2022 Elevator Shot in an elevator at Millennium Park in Chicago over one year period, the video juxtaposes different levels, seasons and time to create a disorientation and deviation. HD Video 12 min https://huhuhuliwei.com/Searching Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:26 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Searching Searching (ongoing) Searching, including a series of works utilizing matches, provides a modern-day revision of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale "The Little Match Girl". The intermittent image and sound of a match being lit creates a viewing experience that alternates between the visible and invisible, reality and imagination, space and void. Dimensions Variable; Video Installation; Video Performance;2018-2022 <img width="3652" height="2739" width_o="3652" height_o="2739" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42b03a11dd5c918d65ad240fb334ae6ebb55ab0111e0a94bc1e09ea33b21cf2a/Searching_installation-view.jpeg" data-mid="228007861" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42b03a11dd5c918d65ad240fb334ae6ebb55ab0111e0a94bc1e09ea33b21cf2a/Searching_installation-view.jpeg" /> Installation View; Searching III; 2022; Open House at Headlands Center for the Arts <img width="5472" height="3078" width_o="5472" height_o="3078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c702b02523a98c1dd594b106b30aa983c345bdab09b4f9628a8d2b4cfe0a61da/Searching_installation.jpg" data-mid="228007860" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c702b02523a98c1dd594b106b30aa983c345bdab09b4f9628a8d2b4cfe0a61da/Searching_installation.jpg" />Installation View; Searching III; Ice Cube; Match; 2021 Documentation; SearchingIII; 2021; online streaming as part of System of Vision at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicagohttps://ess.org/esscalendar/2021/6/4/tqc-airmw-presents-kioto-aoki-systems-of-vision https://huhuhuliwei.com/Sesame-Opens-a-Skylight-1 Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:27 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/Sesame-Opens-a-Skylight-1 Sesame Opens a Skylight Sound Installation, Robot Vacuums, Broadcast, Writing2020-2024 Sesame Opens a Skylight is a recipe-related participatory radio station in an abandoned railway factory community in Chongqing, China. It interrogates the capitalist economy and its role in modernizing our diet through a historical and sociological investigation of the sweet potato. Native to Central and South America, the sweet potato was brought to Asia through its introduction to the Philippines by the Spanish as a colonial crop, ultimately contributing significantly to population growth across the continent. The taste conjures up collective memories of famine, post-war food shortages, migration, land planning, and environmental governance. This project started from 2020 and collaborated with the local transportation broadcast until 2022. In the exhibition space, the video and sound are separately transported by two cleaning robots that mimics trains. It mirrors how a folktale can be generated through retelling. Building on sweet potato candy stories I collected, I am interested in the rise of sugar to its dominant position in our diets and the relationship between the origins of the food industry and the imperial trade. In 2023, the project explores and expands on this history through the collection of Pan-Asian sweet potato recipes. Beyond the written and sound elements in the project, the collected recipes will be presented via a mobile food truck in multiple factory communities in the end of 2024. Local residents will be invited to make, adapt and innovate the recipes through ‘ingredient sharing', 'random cooking' and 'side dish recycling'. Participants will build new relationships through a shared experience of food. <img width="2627" height="1478" width_o="2627" height_o="1478" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28d4de047059738ca8b2a90dadc6810bb66e2d1c53be4dfb5ab17020dbd2180f/Sesame.jpg" data-mid="228007862" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28d4de047059738ca8b2a90dadc6810bb66e2d1c53be4dfb5ab17020dbd2180f/Sesame.jpg" />Liwei · 哐哐哐村的小紅薯 （上） https://huhuhuliwei.com/If-you-swallow-a-nail-just-drink-some-alcohol Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:29:28 +0000 Hu Liwei https://huhuhuliwei.com/If-you-swallow-a-nail-just-drink-some-alcohol If You Swallow a Nail,Just Drink Some Alcohol If You Swallow A Nail, Just Drink Some Alcohol is an intimate portrait of my grandparents. The two have been married for 60 years and are grappling with Alzheimer’s and hearing loss. Their resistance to the economic bloom and urban transformation in China is manifested in slow, patient shots observing the details of their quotidian life. My own position as both their granddaughter and the filmmaker is challenged in the work, and the power dynamic between us is always in flux. This work deals with age, national history, class, gender, and social structure, while interrogating the presence of the apparatus in a self-reflexive manner. HD Video 63 min <img width="1500" height="844" width_o="1500" height_o="844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aca36c801318ee01f9798e4ca8a0d0071fe6c1eeab61aed0780c0f9be61d196f/If-you-swallow-a-nail--just-drink-some-alcohol-3-copy.jpg" data-mid="228007867" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aca36c801318ee01f9798e4ca8a0d0071fe6c1eeab61aed0780c0f9be61d196f/If-you-swallow-a-nail--just-drink-some-alcohol-3-copy.jpg" />