Tēnā koutou,
ADA is thrilled to commission the new work '↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask)'
by Tāmaki Makaurau-based artist Xi Li 李曦 - now online at ada.net.nz.
Published on the occasion of this new commission is an interview with
curator Sophie Davis and Xi Li 李曦. In the interview, they discuss the
foundation of Li's practice and how world-building in digital space
offers an environment to explore identity by synthesising experiences of
the natural world.
ada.net.nz/library/embedded-symbols-in-neither-space/
'↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask)' employs first-person 360-degree panoramic
videos as a medium and method of practice, proposing that the "self" is
a fictitious concept and exploring how it profoundly influences our
illusions and ideologies. By presenting three VR scenes constructed
based on the web, characters, symbols, and digital sculptures, the
artwork delves into the intersections of self-fictionality, trauma in
identity perception, and phenomenology in digital narrative. These
scenes incorporate the artist's own body digital scans, virtual
self-portraits, and colossal avatar, reflecting the digitization and
concept of a fictitious self. Simultaneously, it articulates the
complexity of the unconscious realm's self-structure and the fractures
in perception, aiming to constitute possibilities for critique in
simulation and identity.
By combining digital virtuality with self-fictionality, the artwork
asserts that the "I" itself is not an unquestionable tangible
experience, closely linked to the misrecognition of the ideal-I.
Simultaneously, through a reflection on the inability to identify the
"self" in language, it emphasises the illusion of the autonomous self,
revealing the inseparability of the self and the big Other. '↪︎I↩︎
(Within Web of Mask)' unfolds as a process based on experience,
exploration, and discovery, intending to create an imaginative
experimental field that challenges the potentiality of individual
cognition at the interweaving boundaries of the virtual and the real.
Xi Li 李曦
'↪︎I↩︎ (Within Web of Mask)', 2023
360° Video/ 4K DCI/ 4096×2048/ 6'40"
This work was commissioned by Aotearoa Digital Arts Network supported by
Creative New Zealand.
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