Home-Land I, July 2001
Interactive Multimedia Installation at
Spirit Square, Charlotte, North Carolina

Five rocking chairs, five videos (found documentary footage layered with Hollywood movies), Macintosh computer, sensors, data projector, midi interface, drum sound module, and patio rug.

Home-Land was completed in the summer of 2001 at Tryon (now McColl) Center for Visual Art Residency in Charlotte, North Carolina. Thoughts on history, technology and human progress have moved me to create this interactive video installation inspired by my own childhood experience in Taiwan watching the concurrent historical events taken place in 1969: astronauts landing on the moon and the Vietnam War. In this experiential, connected and erratic setting where future progress symbolized by the astronaut is incessantly being challenged and (re)defined by competition, aggression and the unsettled past, places the viewers in a state of indeterminacy. Rocking chairs function like body containers constantly shifting the spectators between comfort and insecurity, stability and uncertainty, home and land, here and there, past and future.