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Stranger Within

2023-24


Stranger Within is a video recorded interview where I ask three informants to take turns to look at my face, describe it verbally while I translate their descriptions into diagrammatic drawings. The video is projected on a piece of frosted tempered glass. Both sides of the projected glass are visible. The video on one side of the glass is a mirror image of the other side, matching the interview’s videography shot from two perspectives of the conversation.






Stranger Within, install view, video projection on frosted tempered glass






Stranger Within, film still
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Stranger Withindrawings (triptych) from the interview, 8.27 x 11.69 inch x 3, Pencil, ink, mysaliva, marker, translucent paper on top of drawing paper, magnets.

Each drawing has two layers. The bottom page is a live transcription of what the informants were saying (as seen in the high-angle shot in the video), and the top semi-translucent page is a dynamic translation I made from listening to the audio a second time.






Informants: Danyang Guo, Kendrick Castellanos, Melanie Wu
Subject: Yiying Wang
Camera: Noah Namgoong, Allen Mou
Sound: Melanie Wu, Chelsey Davillier
Editing: Yiying Wang
Installation Photo: Changhong Design
Mark