UGLYKIKI

Artist Statement

The Release 無量 is a collaborative, conceptual project in which I investigate the trinity that has been experimented in my previous practices - The release from the human body, the release from materialism, and the release from creatorship. Inspired by human traditions regarding death, The Release 無量 is created to inquire whether the human spirit is attached to the material world. Only through death will we realize the true disembodiment from the current world. In The Release 無量, I incorporate the concept of death with a sci-fi idea that we have been imagined since the 70s. “If one day we upload our consciousness to the cloud…..”, “One day we will become collective consciousness….” Yet the question is not finished without asking, “what is the human legacy that should be included in the collective consciousness?”

Solo Thesis Exhibition Images

UGLYKIKI (Kiki Wu)
The Release 無量 | Dedicators, 2021
3D render.
3000 x 1500 px

UGLYKIKI (Kiki Wu)
The Release 無量 | Dedicators (Close-up), 2021
3D render.
2668 x 1500 px

UGLYKIKI (Kiki Wu)
The Release 無量 | Collective Consciousness, 2021
Single Channel HD video (screenshot)
Video Available: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh3T8YJCbyBs7a2mR2Ty3izUc6s-0r8BH

UGLYKIKI (Kiki Wu)
The Release 無量 | Ceremony, 2021
Screenshot of virtual installation.
Installation Available: https://newart.city/show/therelease