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Videos
Colors of Providence
16mm film, alchohol ink, leaves, sharpie, 120ft, 2:35min, silent, Using letters and floral elements from College Hill, Colors of Providence is a tactile meditation on the botanical wonders in college hill in Providence.Added on: August 31, 2022
Jona Dove
Jona Dove trt: 5:30min HD video, color, sound, 2020 "Jona Dove" is a film that reflects on the intersecting emotions of man and whale. This film explores co-existence, biodiversity and the fragile relationship between man and mammal.Added on: August 31, 2022
Laelaps
2 Channel Video installation, Trt: 8:40 min, 2 windows, 37.5 X 47.5” Exhibited on the front exterior windows of the Ely Center for Contemporary Art. The work is commissioned by the Ely Center of Contemporary Art with Yale-China for Lunarfest18. Laelaps is a two channel video installation inspired by the mythological dog that became the constellation Canis Major. In this artwork, earth and water meet the celestial sky to draw a picture of the natural forces that balance our universe. The film blends imagery from ipad star apps, competitive saluki races and ancient constellations with landscapes filmed in diverse locations ranging from China to USA. "Much of Laelaps is culled from Lili’s personal archive of her own footage which she has amassed over the course of years, filming found moments that hold meaning for her. Patterns emerge as this archive grows; themes, ideas, objects and images rise to the surface out of her captured collection, and as she puts it, “wash up on the beach” of her studio and into her work. While she gravitates toward universal narratives, she creates her own thread within them, pairing the personal with the colossal. A descendent of the nomadic Chinese group the Hakkas (meaning “guest families”), and with family still spread across the world today, she finds that time is elastic, elongated from communicating overseas and across multiple time-zones. Lili’s methods of collecting may be seen as an act of preservation of an untethered cultural identity, a responsibility she has inherited to bestow dignity on things that are part of her immediate and familial history. As both a weaver and a ceramicist, there is a corollary practice in patience that she brings to her video work." - Mia Wendel-DiLalloAdded on: August 31, 2022
Istoria's Garden (Installation documentation)
2020, air drying clay, washi paper, pva glue, oil paint, copper wire, fishing line, video projector, speakers, mica mpeg player, 11’ x 22’ x 6’ Istoria’s Garden is a triptych video installation featuring super 8 footage shot across diverse locations in Wyoming, Melbourne, Singapore, Okinawa and New York. The projections are casted onto biomorphic forms that are balanced and suspended, interrupting the light to cast delicate shadows that interact with the video projections.Added on: August 31, 2022
Grandmother's Room
2014, installation, variable dimensions, nylon string, cotton, gold chinese pigment, chalk, Video trt: 7min, sound, shot on location, Meizhou, China Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/102799553 password: Popo Exhibited at M ART Center, Shanghai, March 2014 This ephemeral installation was shot on location in an abandoned school in the Leow Ancestral Village in Meizhou, China. My maternal grandmother, a schoolteacher in the 1920’s, used this room as an office and resting place. Using bags of glossy ganoderma as an adapted ceremonial bed, this organic installation recalls the imagined memories of ancestral history and heritage.Added on: August 31, 2022
The End of History
Super 8 and 16mm to HD, Apx 10min, sound, color, The End of History focuses on the lives of fresh graduates from art school living in Brooklyn. Parties and conversations are contrasted against the pivotal yet subconscious impact of 9/11, the war on terror and the implications of the Patriot Act. Episode 2 of “The New Century” The New Century is an episodic series in four parts, tracking the lives of several art school individuals at the beginning of the third millennia.Added on: August 31, 2022
This is not the Sun
"This is not the Sun" documents a three day performance on a balcony by the sea. Reflecting on the banal in a state of solitude and anticipation, this stop motion film uses the motif of the bowler hat as time passes and people interact at a picnic table. Inspired by the painting, "Son of Man" by Rene Magritte.Added on: August 31, 2022