Tommy Jiang

Everything is going to be ok

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Installation view

My project is located within the field of identity politics, specifically my position in the intersectional space between ethnicity, sexuality and nationality. However, the project shifted into becoming a cathartic process to negotiate everyday life and understand oneself. This project then became a discovery of how self-love could be a passive and subversive way of protesting against dominant orders.

I am interested in the formal qualities of advertising language and also in reacting to the new forms of advertising that are populating the city. Furthermore, I am interested in the ways new technology and the internet have changed how we use language, and our relationship with text.

As a part of my installation I am concerned with cultural theorist Homi Bhabha’s idea of the third space, an alternate or in between space for being. I am also interested in using light in my installation as a visceral way to communicate the multiplicities of being in this pseudo ‘third space’. 

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Don't wait too long
027 A2767
Installation view
Text Sign
A sign
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Installation view
Everything Will Be Ok
Dear Tommy- video still
Everything Will Be Ok 2
Dear Tommy- video still
Screen Shot 2016 11 19 At 2 41 10 Pm
Us- video still
Screen Shot 2016 11 19 At 2 43 13 Pm
Us- video still

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