Crossings, 2016
Wu’s video, CROSSINGS, continues her work on migration and walking. We walk for the pleasure of wandering and thinking, for exercise, as a communal activity, to reach destinations and, in some circumstances, for survival.
It is impossible to avoid daily reports of the current global forced displacement of populations. In the UNHCR annual Global Trends Report: ”The number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million." Worldwide forced displacement as of 2017 has risen to 65.6 million (UNHCR).
Part of Why a WALK Festival? at Carleton College
A site specific installation
6:27' HD video single channel projection installation 38’ x 24’, 6 tons of River Rocks
Exhibition:
Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College/Northfield MN, part of the WALK! Festival
Crossings at the Flaten Museum/ Satellite installation
2:38' HD video, river rocks, pine 2x4, Flaten Art Museum/St Olaf College
Wu’s video, CROSSINGS, continues her work on migration and walking. We walk for the pleasure of wandering and thinking, for exercise, as a communal activity, to reach destinations and, in some circumstances, for survival.
It is impossible to avoid daily reports of the current global forced displacement of populations. In the UNHCR annual Global Trends Report: ”The number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million." Worldwide forced displacement as of 2017 has risen to 65.6 million (UNHCR).
“The artists Yu-Wen Wu and Harriet Bart incorporate walking into their studio practice as a way to collect data and synthesize ideas. They elaborated on how their piece invites viewers to meditate on the migrant crisis, which reached a devastating milestone in 2014 when the number of refugees worldwide surpassed 60 million. The winding path made by river rocks symbolizes the migrants’ journey, and the numbering of the rocks represents the staggering number of people displaced by war, persecution, or famine.”