Moon Milk — WA LIU

Moon Milk
2019
Single-channel video installation
8 min 20 sec

The video begins with a dream under anesthesia during neurosurgery and develops into a satirical critique on industrialization and gentrification campaign, all materialized into a series of sculptures in the video installation. The documentary on craniotomy surgery echoes with Italo Calvino’s fantasy novel “Cosmicomics;” the process where doctors remove brain tumors also resemble the purification ritual in a factory within the dream. Through Italian and Chinese narratives, this work interweaves dream and reality, reimagining human agency that transcends the boundary between material and immaterial.

月乳
2019
单频影像装置
8分20秒

本片开始于开颅手术麻醉状态下的一场梦，最终延伸为对于工业化发展和城市升级号召的讽刺性评论，并实体化为影片中出现的一系列道具雕塑。纪实的开颅手术，与卡尔维诺的魔幻小说《宇宙奇趣全集》相互呼应；医生切除脑部肿瘤的过程，似乎也是在梦中的工厂里净化月乳的仪式。借用意大利文和中文叙述，本片主角游走于梦境与现实之间，逾越物质与非物质的界限，重新想象人性的多种存在可能。