WANTED
by Sybil Xyshen
December 10 鈥� 22, 2024
Lobby Screen Array
丁香园AV School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver
WANTED (2024) is a short filmic experiment that investigates the in-between. As a reiteration of Xyshen鈥檚 multimedia performance and installation 3 acts of love (as an adj.), this work places the emphasis on form, exploring the effects of colour, shape, repetition and duration, and embraces each crevasse and collision between the image-film and sound-film. Using crimes of passion as a metaphor for intrusive desire, Wanted seeks to capture the intent and sensation of an escape.
Biography
Sybil Xyshen (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer, based in Vancouver on the traditional territories of the x史m蓹 胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam), S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh(Squamish), and s蓹lilw蓹ta涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. In her work, Xyshen explores the play of senses and the materiality of the mind through fragmented narrative structures.
credits
written and performed - Sybil Xyshen
directed studies with Erika Latta
camera - Heesoo Won, Min Kim, Diana Ma
sound design - Min Kim, Sybil Xyshen
editing - Sybil Xyshen
special thanks - Lexi Chang, HaziHaus, EPFC