What if 2: Past, present, and future, 2017
What if 2: Past, present, and future, 2017, Chanel Video Installation
Edited version of Interview: Past, Present, Future with English subtitles
This project is a video installation with three interviews. Each video screen shows three interviewees’ dialogues about the past, present, and future. However, only present stories are played through the speaker so that the audience can clearly hear them.
The audience can pick only one story from all interviewees’ past and future stories and hear it through earphones. It emphasizes choosing one perspective for one story to make the audience feel the limits of time in the past and future. It contrasts itself by clearly showing the present videos from the other times. Therefore, people can understand that the present tense is more straightforward and more realistic, which helps them think of what we can actually see and understand in our own lives.
This set is designed to emphasize the present over the past or future to make them focus more on the present day rather than what has already passed or what is yet to come. The three video screens tell the present story via speakers in the exhibition space. The audience can only hear the three interviewees’ past and future stories through the earphones, and they can only select one of the past or future stories. Eventually, the audience is meant to realize that the present should hold most of their focus in their lives as well as in this installation.
The audience can pick only one story from all interviewees’ past and future stories and hear it through earphones. It emphasizes choosing one perspective for one story to make the audience feel the limits of time in the past and future. It contrasts itself by clearly showing the present videos from the other times. Therefore, people can understand that the present tense is more straightforward and more realistic, which helps them think of what we can actually see and understand in our own lives.
This set is designed to emphasize the present over the past or future to make them focus more on the present day rather than what has already passed or what is yet to come. The three video screens tell the present story via speakers in the exhibition space. The audience can only hear the three interviewees’ past and future stories through the earphones, and they can only select one of the past or future stories. Eventually, the audience is meant to realize that the present should hold most of their focus in their lives as well as in this installation.