Typewriter Analogue (2019) — Social Art Library

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Yifan He

A photograph of an adapted computer keyboard with words instead of letters.

Type-Writer Analogue (2019) is a participatory installation that explores the agency of political wordings.

In reference to the online textual-based political debates, Type-Writer Analogue limits the composure of language to only forty-eight most-used prefixes/words collected from an online 'Popular Political Issues' poll (https://www.isidewith.com/polls/popular). As a hacked receipt printer connected with a re-wired keyboard, Type-Writer Analogue instantly prints out any type-in from the keyboard. Participants are encouraged to interact with this piece. The project has generated piles of receipt recording anonymous slogans, political poems, and rhetoric babbles.

As an on-going participatory project, Type-Writer Analogue addresses how language enacts, multiplies, and orphan realities. The work sets off to offer political imaginations in reassembling words while recognising the importance of political activisms in practice.

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Yifan He

Yifan's practice comprises coding, object-making, editing, and performing. There is a disquieting aesthetic inherent in her works, fuelled by the gestural displacements of mundane objects (electronics) and poeticised actualisations of everyday rituals. She recasts, rearranges, and reconfigures materials such as electrical appliances, discarded pieces of furniture, and family event recordings, into clusters of cause and effect circuits. Spectators may find electric cords dangling, video projections overlapping, computer- programmed models flowing chaotically on the screen, dodging the cursor, performance scripts laying on a dinner table, and poems self-generating and overlapping into an unreadable blur. Her installations, at their grandest, are forced material poetry of which the meaning can never bypass the formality.

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