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Works

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

Animations by  Caroline Niu

20 minutes in loop
Exhibited April 28 – May 2, 2025, at Barnard Movement Lab as part of the Artist-in-Residence showcase, New York, NY

There are moments when we slip unconsciously into the state of waiting. The present dissolves silently as our gaze stretches hungrily toward that distant nebula where the future resides—its hands cradling wonders, hope, secrets, and traps. Yet while we stand frozen like stone in this state of anticipation, inert and inaction, subtle transformations accumulate with each passing second. Water droplets sculpting ancient stone over millennia, buildings sprouting skyward like post-rain fungi, colonies of ants constructing grand castles in forgotten corners of the park.
These transformations unfold in their own sacred tempo, a slow-motion dance of becoming we rarely witness. While we fix our attention on final destinations and anticipated moments of arrival, and try every way to numb through, distract from the tedious process of waiting, we lose sight of the quiet beauty found within transformation itself, the poetry written in motion. Perhaps what we call waiting is actually life happening in its most honest form—not a space between events, but the silent conversation between time and matter, writing stories too subtle for impatient eyes.
Through interactive animation and sound, the installation recreates and exaggerates these transformatio ns within waiting, through presenting and interweaving moments of imagination, stillness, and imperceptible change.



YANQI CHEN

last updated Oct-2025