Solo Exhibition - BIOSIGNAL
2020
Youyang Hu, Chiaochi Chou
1.Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, Taipei
2.Project Fulfill Art space, Taipei
Exhibited Works:
Apercevior
Pneuma
Breathing
Cradle
Online Press:
https://theartpressasia.com/2020/10/06/until-we-learn-there-no-difference-between-human-and-plant-an-interview-with-y2k-chou-chiao-chi-hu-you-yang-in-taipei-at-project-fulfill-art-space/
For the exhibition Biosignal, we present four new artworks, treating the bio-signals of plants as the source, the artworks are able to perceive, metabolize and react to the environment’s stimuli, while exchanging information (i.e. light, temperature, humidity and atmospheric components) through hybrid artificial channels. The artworks form a hub system of signals that continually sends feedback and regulates the environmental conditions in the exhibition space.
Biosignal experimental series aims to collect the bio-signals from living creatures that are usually invisible from our senses and translate them using real-time data processing to expand our trans-species shared experiences and understanding of other organisms, sparking further discussions. artworks are empowered with an experimental nature, extending the idea of hybridized organisms evolving processing abilities, communication and collective decision-making. Once signals transcend the physical confines of individuals and travel across different species, inter-species boundaries will gradually begin to blur. The gallery is shaped into a semi-closed ecosystem consisting of interconnected individual signals. As the audience enters this new environment filled with non-human organisms as foreign stimuli, are we still seen as humans? Or do we become mere sensory neurons in this nature-dominated realm, from which escape is nowhere on the horizon?