12 August 2026, 01:45pm to 02:05pm
Existing between the domains of architectural, technological, and spiritual mediums, 'Spaces as Traces' brings together found footage, archival material, and three-dimensional animation to explore Singapore's architecture alongside Taoist ritual practices. Through an imagined science fiction of Chinese mythology, the work explores the future of the cyber space.
Set within the speculative realm of Singapore's public housing, the film imagines a dialogue between artificial intelligence (Yang) and the Taoist I Ching, where hexagram symbols interact with architectural forms. By toggling between fiction and archival documentation, the film interweaves timelines, narratives, and spaces, reflecting a mode of cognition that embraces multiplicity and simultaneity.
Filmmaking becomes a tool for navigating and articulating these complex realities. Through its layered visual and narrative structure, 'Spaces as Traces' proposes that space, time, and meaning are not universally experienced but are instead constructed through diverse perceptual frameworks.
Shi Yun is a multidisciplinary artist, recent graduate from Slade School of Fine Arts, University of London.
Her work usually takes the form of photography and filmmaking. She creates narrative and abstract works that feature historic documents, archival footages and personal recordings: visualising how spaces frame communal memory, evoking themes of reincarnation, dislocation, and return.
Shi Yun is reclaiming her heritage and culture through documentations and conversations with questions of identity and diaspora in relation to Singapore's rapid growth. Through family history and local mythology, she investigates fragmented belonging and explore tensions between reality and dream, memory and delusion.