2017; 5280 × 5280 pixels; 3 minutes (infinite loop) with sound; Sound design by Stephen Farrell
Permanent collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation
Underground Circuit is a collage of hundreds of video clips shot in the subway stations in New York. Station to station, the movement of the commuters in the outer rings suggests the repetitive cycle of life and urban theatricality and texture. The inner-most ring includes people sitting on benches waiting; the central drummers act as the controller of the movement, inspired by the concept of the Four-faced Buddha in Chinese folk religion, the god who can fulfill and grant all wishes of its devotees.
《地铁环路》是一部由数百个视频片段拼贴而成的作品，拍摄于纽约的地铁站。从一个站到另一个站，外圈通勤者的流动暗示着生活的重复循环以及城市中戏剧化的时刻与肌理的展现。内圈是坐在长凳上等待的人群，而中心的鼓手则象征着运动的控制者，其灵感来源于中国民间信仰中的四面佛——这位神祇被认为能够满足信徒的一切愿望。
Press:
Hypebeast: Yuge Zhou's Video Installations Explore Individuality Within Urban Environments at Site:Brooklyn
BOOOOOOOM: “Underground Circuit” by Artist Yuge Zhou
Exhibition History:
Interreality at Desmond Tower (10.14, 2023 - 03.17, 2024), Los Angeles, CA
Cyberarts 2020—Prix Ars Electronica Exhibition at OK Center for Contemporary Art (09.09,2020 — 09.15, 2020), Linz, Austria
Ars Electronica 2020 (09.09,2020 — 09.13,2020), Kepler's Garden, Linz, Austria
"In the Shape of a City" Solo Exhibition (10.18,2017 — 11.08,2017), Paul Watkins Art Gallery, MN
Currents New Media Festival (06.08,2018 — 06.24,2018), El Museo Cultural De Santa Fe, NM
"Universe of Relations" Group Exhibition (06.08,2018 — 09.23,2018), Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
Underground Circuit (video), original resolution 5280 x 5280 pixels
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Video projection onto floor and central cube with relief, 10 ft x 10 ft x 1.5 ft.
The installation invites audiences to sit on the central cube as Voyeur-gods, to observe the anonymous characters in the projected urban labyrinth. Documentation by Andrew Thoreson;