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Yesterday Yet To Come (2025)
      For installation, cassette tapes, and live electronics    

When Clouds Are One Cloud Till The Horizon (2025)
      For Mixed String Ensemble    

They Have Only Existence (2025)
      For Solo Percussion, Live Electronics, and Generative Video Score   

Warp (2025)
      For 4-channel Fixed Media and Audio-reactive Video   

The Poetics of Waiting… (2025)
      Installation for Interactive Animations and Spatialized Sound  

       Shards of The Untraced (2025)

      For String Quartet and Spatialized Fixed Media    

Events And Results (2024)
      Video Game    

Unsupervised (2024)
      For Electric Guitar Quartet and Light    

Place Each Body Part on the Box And... (2023)
      For Wood, Resin, Print, Force Sensors and 6-channel Fixed Media    

inhere nowhere (2023)
      For Mixed Ensemble, Live-electronics, and Spatialization    

The Forgotten Ones (2020)
      For String Quartet and Fixed Media    

Clouds (2019)
      For Flute and Live Electronics    

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Place Each Body Part on the Box And... (2023)
For Wood, Resin, Print, Force Sensors and 6-channel Fixed Media

Collaborated with Songhyun Moon
Exhibited May 6, 2023 at FLEETING PRESENCE, Nomu Nomu Gallery, Baltimore, MD

The work begins with two questions: if I were to perform a traditional ancestor ritual (祭祖 jì zǔ/제사) in a foreign place, would my grandmother, who passed away in Korea, be able to receive it? What gives meaning to an action? This question highlights the changes of actions detached from their original contexts, borrowing a form of cultural narrative. When an action with significant meaning in a particular context is performed outside of that context, its meaning can change. To explore this idea, we are creating an interactive installation where each body part is connected to a pressure sensor. When the audience places their body parts on the corresponding images, layers of music will play. The installation will allow the audience to perform a traditional ancestor ritual without necessarily understanding the cultural context that makes the action meaningful.







YANQI CHEN

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