Production Credits
Creator : Tong Wu
Visual Designer : Tong Wu
Music - "Blind Faith":
Composer: Chein Chien Lu
Performers:
Vibraphone - Chien Chien Lu
Guitar - Quintin Zoto
Base - Richie Goods
Drums - Allan Mednard
Showcased at:
solo exhibition "Daily Dividuals", LATITUDE Gallery, New York
Work Type :
3D Animated Video, Multi-Channel Video Sculpture
Design & Development Tool:
3D Interaction and Animation - Unity
3D modeling and rendering - Cinema 4D
3D scanning - itSeez3D, in3D
Post-Production Tool
Conceptual Poster Rendering: Keyshot
visual materials touchup and video editing -
Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere Pro
Frames from the nine-chapter video story:
I've come back to a city that Ino, longer,come home to.
Overview:
This excerpt of the video poetry “Love, Death, Wishes (2020）” was created collaboratively by Tong Wu as the visual artist and Kiyo Kamisawa as the poet.
The work presents as a monologue of a Japanese woman, who found herself haunted by the unavoidable gaze around her. She struggled among her identities as a misfit of the Japanese culture, as a young woman subjected to stereotypes of being tender, submissive, and cute, as a daughter of a couple who immigrated to Japan 30 years ago from China. The complex feelings of estrangement and alienation, as well as the grief that comes along, construct the motif of the story.
The work was created during the outbreak of the COVID-19. As well as the health battle against the still-raging pandemic, there has been an exacerbating of gender inequalities and discrimination facing women in Asia: domestic violence, the neglected needs of female hygiene products for frontline medical workers, in which about 80% are women, and many more. This work is not only an autobiographical presentation , but also a peephole to the long-existing gender inequality, which is deeply rooted in Asian culture yet too often overlooked.
