Reshaping History
Kinetic installation | Elastic material, mechanical systems, metal structure
Two parts, each: 250 x 160 x 60 cm / 8 min
2011
Two parts, each: 250 x 160 x 60 cm / 8 min
2011
Reshaping History is a digital landscape that seeks to alter and extend the space-time embedded within a particular, flat yet luminous fragment of recorded history—creating a new scenery that exists independently of reality.
The video features drifting clouds, a massive rock, and a mechanical structure controlled by a custom computer program. This program continuously manipulates a flexible, morphing interface—pushing, contracting, flattening, and rotating—causing the clouds to shift rapidly or flow gently according to the system’s internal dynamics. Meanwhile, the rock’s once rigid texture transforms into a soft, fluid landscape in motion.
Through this digital transformation, Reshaping History extends the traditional Eastern landscape perspective, which resists confinement to physical realism and instead emphasizes subjective experience. Using digital technology as its medium, the work reflects on our notions of dwelling, temporality, and the mutable relationship between history and perception.
