Superposition (2021)
5mins 25secs
Single Channel Video
All at once
Superposition imagines a world disconnected and simultaneously existing in many places and states at all times. Drawing from a library of recorded sounds and footage, it superimposes chat boxes recorded from live streams onto footage of happenings in the world. The work gets closer to the experience of how information reaches us and how we consume it. Produced during the pandemic, each event carries its own layers, accompanied by its own reaction and commentary. What we see and what is said, happens at the same time, and the distance between the event and how we encounter it only increases. We no longer experience happenings as they are, we experience them all at once.
Ernest Wu 