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][LIMINAL][ employs a swarm of hacked semi-autonomous flying drones equipped with loudspeakers to create a series of performances and an installation on the topic of relational anxiety of inhabiting spaces. We keep on creating and occupying spaces in our unconscious daily movements. In a massively compressed urban space like Hong Kong we constantly find ourselves reaching for the smallest available spots to advance through crowds. We try to achieve the highest mobility in a limited volume. This creates a space that lies in a constant negotiation between temporary presence and absence, a tension embodied in in-between spaces. ][LIMINAL][ aims at enhancing this tension while simultaneously creating an awareness of these transient intermediate states. The project will employ flying drones that will perform in selected places, exploring the spaces and the way we occupy them. The flying drones will concretize and sonify the instability and anxiety of these mutating spaces. The sound of this army of quadcopters, filling the air with a sense of uneasiness, will be matched by the soundscape generated through their loudspeakers. These sounds will be composed specifically for each location, with the purpose of enhancing the existing soundscapes: air-cons, humming noises of an alley and mechanical textures in industrial areas. Grants 2013 – "][LIMINIAL]["(with Marco De Mutiis), grantee of Bloomberg Digital Arts Initiative 2013, Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation / Bloomberg Exhibition 2016 – BIAN 2016 | AUTOMATA – International Digital Arts Biennal – Montreal, Canada 2014 – ISEA 2014, 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Dubai, UAE 2014 – The International Festival of Digital Arts and New Media, Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece 2013 – “][LIMINAL][” (with Marco De Mutiis), K11 Art Space, Hong Kong Bibliography 2013 - ][LIMINAL][ Interview, Randomartzine, 4/11/2013 2013 - "Art show using footage from drones opens at K11 in Tsim Sha Tsui", South China Morning Post 2013 - "Something new: Watch out!", Post Magazine, South China Morning Post 2013 -  "刻下生命中的半秒 - ][LIMINAL][ 展覽", Arts News(藝頻),15/10/2013 2013 -  空間.人群.聲音—][Liminal][ , Arts News(藝頻), Fri, 11/10/2013

][LIMINAL][ Video Performance
][LIMINAL][ Video Performance
][LIMINAL][ Video Performance
][LIMINAL][ Video Performance

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