One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro- events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.
One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean
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“it’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.”
“it’s an exploration of a world that can all too often fall into the superficial that recognises its pleasures as well as its pitfalls.”
Yuyan Wang
Biography
Yuyan Wang (b. 1989, China) is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the impact of image creation in media, representation, and the attention economy. By deconstructing and recontextualizing inherent meanings of found materials, her practice probes the continual mutations within the industrial production chain of images, a perpetual development leading to an abstraction of reality. Her work has been showcased at Tate Modern, Palais de Tokyo, the 12th Berlin Biennale and various festivals, such as Berlinale, IFFR, European Media Art Festival, Indie Lisboa, receiving numerous awards.
Filmography
- The Moon Also Rises —2024—short film
- Look On the Bright Side —2023—short film
- One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean – 2021 – short film
- All movements should kill the wind – 2019 – short film
