Who am I on the 15th of June 2022
I am in London.
I study Experimental Communication.
I see my experimental process as my outcome.
I like embodied experiences.
But I Don’t Like Walking!
I was born in North East China.
It is a very cold place (-23 °C).
I draw connections between regional and localised experience.
I build connections with my audience.
NOW. I locate myself in different sites of London as a way of responding to my cultural background.
I SEE MYSELF AS A HACKER.
As a hacker I: Don’t like walking.
Was born in the millennial generation.
Believe in Wark’s Capital is Dead.
Lives in a data-obsessed society.
Dominated by who owns and controls the information.
Understand behaviours in Haraway’s Chuthulecene.
Reconfigure human relationship with landscape.
Requires sym-poiesis with technology.
Embrace technology, fantasise to live in a techno-utopian world.
Call for provocative ways of seeing how landscape can be transformed as information.
IN RECENT PROJECT, I locate myself back in my hometown.
Google maps is my transportation.
I am like a hacker exploring my hometown’s landscape.
I am like a hacker roaming there.
I am like a hacker memorising there.
Question how to negotiate human relationships with body, landscape, and technology in the context of a digital culture and a global pandemic.
Use speculation to invoke questions about the phenomenon of contemporary society instead of giving answers.
Combine existing technologies (Google Maps) to offer more possibilities of con-evolution with human-behaviour and landscape.
CONTACTS
Liangxu Zhang
E-mail: liangxu.zhang1997@gmail.com
Tel: 7754624330
Wechat: 514563954