Installation documentation of sound work: That which is continuous 

Access Gallery, Vancouver. Photo: Rachel Topham

That which is continuous, audio excerpt: 

Extending from my study of taijiquan, my ongoing research traces 感應 ganying — a cosmological concept of correlative or 'mutual resonance' — across different sensorial modes. 

Often illustrated by a string vibrating in tune with its neighbour, 感應 ganying translates loosely as ‘inviting responding’. This cosmological concept has operated since ancient times as a framework of universal interrelationality. Instead of mechanistic cause-and-effect, affinities resonate between all things, however distantly and indirectly — this logic has guided studies of phenomena ranging from magnetism to health. My artistic research considers the possibilities of transposing correlative resonance as a framework for re-configuring subjectivity, and gathering through diffuse affinities.

This research has taken shape as various lecture performances, sound works, and writings that reflect on the ganying 'mutually resonant' connections in my artistic processes and aesthetic inquiry.  

As resonance, sound exists immanently, prior to audible presence. Listening to sound in the muted, ’shadow register' encourages broader receptivity and opens possibilities for interrelational sensitivity, beyond subject-object causation.

Gravitating towards speaking nearby as invoked by Trinh T. Minh-ha, my research also responds to Stuart Hall’s call to imagine “new positions of speaking” through diasporic cultural production.

In recent sound works, I focus on the guqin's resonance and the mode of listening and playing in the 'shadow register'. In recent lecture performances that interweave image, sound, and video, I focus on moments of ganying by reflecting on taijiquan-informed artistic processes. These collated reflections re-visit moments of ganying and imagine more broadly how mutual resonance might generate new ways of listening nearby.

That which is continuous

Sound installation with cargo net hammock

for the exhibition Small Gods, Access Gallery, Vancouver, CA

Fall 2025

Tracing the Tides 

Lecture performance, with video and sound

Dance Resonance Conference, University of  Music and Performing Arts (mdw), Vienna, AT

Fall 2025

Lecture performance and workshop 

Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, NL

Fall 2025

Frost on the bell 

Lecture performance, with video and sound

isaScience Conference, Reichenau, AT

Summer 2023