https://shawnzytph.xyz/header-desktop 2025-06-30T22:45:56+00:00 always 0.5 https://shawnzytph.xyz/header-mobile 2025-06-30T22:45:05+00:00 always 0.5 https://shawnzytph.xyz 2026-01-27T13:38:58+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1104666580877950731163860281948/Untitled-16-1-dragged.jpg <a href="grounded" rel="history"><text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Grounded, 2025</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2142958153711941524431359550677/3Cattle-depot_Photo_Karie-Tsui_black-noise-copy.JPG <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Black Noise(Inhibited), 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2142971393124630666513649870037/Inertia (Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022 by Shawn Pak Hin Tang <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Inertia (Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2142973150545938568822632326357/Muk6Hak1, 2023, fish tank, single-channel video, stereo sound, 11 mins 08 sec <a class="icon-link" href="muk6hak1" rel="history" style=""><text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon></a><a href="muk6hak1" rel="history" style="">Muk6Hak1</a>, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2142975788467234597435932517589/Shawn Pakhin Tang, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024, Video Documentation for "Hong Kong Qi" at Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen <a class="icon-link" href="elegy-of-resonance" rel="history"><text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon></a><a href="elegy-of-resonance" rel="history">Elegy of Resonance I</a>, 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2144444967408601546763180287189/Tales of Golden Sun and Golden Sea(Revisited), Shawn Pakhin Tang, 2022 <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Tales of Golden Sun and Golden Sea (Revisited), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2144858955012934631591636214997/1_Lunar-Sculpture.jpeg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Lunar Sculpture, 2020 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2144860997842266842334801274069/IMG_18DCD2543A4D-3.jpeg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Thermostat ((If blood flows a perceptual warmth, skin is camouflage), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2144985909397912900278572917973/overview.jpg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Sunwell(Three-leg Crow), 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2158884842901665377686405883093/IMG_3048_edited.jpg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Playcourt of Birds/Shuttle(cock)s, 2021 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2158886805174066218539959035093/300-dpi-shawn-tang-pak-hin_edited.jpg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Two Suns, 2020 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2286559597198332974362421208277/SDIM2554.jpg <text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2293035520396221486407509976277/Close-up view, Eardrum, 2025, Dead Coral on thundersheet, vibration speakers, sound installation <a href="eardrum" rel="history"><text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Eardrum, 2025</a> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2430282506480811233661560399061/Grounded, 2025, Video documentation <a href="grounded" rel="history"><text-icon icon="rightwards-arrow"></text-icon>Grounded, 2025</a> https://shawnzytph.xyz/overview 2026-01-27T13:37:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1104666580877950731163860281948/Untitled-16-1-dragged.jpg Redwood(Three Chinese Wooden Chairs), 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2142970553447287175328569861333/Diachronic-Echoes_Shawn-3.jpg Tales of Golden Sun and Golden Sea (Revisited), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2144357375165743105433930147029/DSC_0446.JPG Elegy of Resonance I, 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2144417023598149160807138960597/Inertia.jpeg Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2144417767573784397587065185493/IMG_18DCD2543A4D-4.jpeg Thermostat(If blood flows a perceptual warmth, skin is camouflage), 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2144858955012934631591636214997/1_Lunar-Sculpture.jpeg Lunar Sculpture, 2021 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C2144945251704063288151657260245/7_Muk6hak1.Photo.fishtank.png Muk6Hak1, 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2144947140872017364894257358037/9_black-noise.JPG Black Noise (Inhibited), 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2144950666505978452632309966037/DSCF3051.jpg Closed at its Open/Open at its Closed, 2021 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2144964713148188260244579001557/IMG_4359.jpg Insulator Module, 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2144965961550040192612194165973/DSCF8061.JPG Sunwell(Three-leg Crow), 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2158884842901665377686405883093/IMG_3048_edited.jpg Playcourt of Birds/Shuttle(cock)s, 2021 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2158886805174066218539959035093/300-dpi-shawn-tang-pak-hin_edited.jpg Two Suns, 2020 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2286559597198332974362421208277/SDIM2554.jpg How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2293057248723832188519810704597/portrait_eardrum_pie_2.jpg Eardrum, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2430276334845880213025423992021/5_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.jpg Grounded, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2628843685367287092177797489877/DSCF5499.JPG The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2705792849201503096464977798357/AMO_3043.JPG Antenna(Frequency 88.1), 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2705792849256843328686106453205/AMO_3015.jpg Remember that, 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2705792849219949840538687349973/AMO_3037.JPG Antenna(Frequency 89.8), 2025 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2705796065077737698472239670485/DSCF9332.JPG Redwood(Three Chinese Wooden Chairs), 2025 https://shawnzytph.xyz/overview-fish-tank 2025-01-01T14:21:52+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1104666580877950731163860281948/Untitled-16-1-dragged.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1104666580841057243016441178716/Untitled-15-1-dragged.jpg https://shawnzytph.xyz/elegy-of-resonance 2025-07-22T12:57:04+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2144356294573922011602106033365/AMO_8241.jpg 1 Elegy of Resonance I 2024 Copper electroculture antenna, electromagnet solenoid, 128C, 256C and 512C tuning forks, single-channel video installation with multichannel sound output system, audio amplifiers Elegy of Resonance is an installation comprising sound devices synchronized with a video. Rather than using conventional speakers, these devices receive audio signals from the video and simultaneously translate them into tactile sonic experiences. The work explores the crisis of hybrid cultural identities in Asia, using hybrid—but sterile—flowers as metaphorical elements to invite speculation on belonging, fertility, and transformation. Primarily, the installation examines the emotional and psychological dimensions of resonance in regions that have undergone socio-political upheavals and contemporary trauma. Infertile flowers serve as symbols of cultural identities that struggle to thrive or reproduce. Alongside this, the tuning fork is employed as a symbolic apparatus—its properties multifaceted: as an instrument of resonance that evokes collective harmony, a tool used in artificial pollination across species, and a therapeutic device in homeopathy for balancing internal energies. The accompanying video documents the process of using a tuning fork to extract pollen—a gesture that mourns the inability of hybrid bodies, both floral and human, to sustain themselves. While addressing the vulnerability of the self, the tuning forks—each set to different frequencies—are also attuned to regulate internal energies, offering a subtle act of care for the distress inherited from historical trauma and political unrest. Each sound device incorporates floral morphological features and principles of electroculture, further entangling the notions of identity, fertility, and resonance across the human and botanical realms. <ol><li>Installation view, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024, ‘Hong Kong Qi’, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen, China. Photo. Courtesy of Mangrove Gallery </li><li>Detail, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024. Photo. Karie Tsui. </li><li>Detail, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024. Photo. Karie Tsui. </li><li>Video Preview, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024. Link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/elegyofresonancei2024?share=copy" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/elegyofresonancei2024</a></li><li>Detail, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024. Photo. Karie Tsui. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2144402157828268760122230416597/Shawn Pakhin Tang, Elegy of Resonance I, 2024, Video Documentation for "Hong Kong Qi" at Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2144407024097802148775656269013/DSC_0179.jpg 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2144410063014420851687189488853/DSC_0162.jpg 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2144995904194340173514119947477/DSC_0172.jpg 5 https://shawnzytph.xyz/the-falling-whistle 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2144407024097802148775656269013/DSC_0179.jpg 1 The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom) 2025 Aged British RAF Ditching Whistle embedded in stainless steel wind pipe, chicken feather broom wrapped in cables, radial blower with reduced outlet, timer relay circuit <ol><li>Installation view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), ‘Asterisks’, Mooroom, Hong Kong. Photo. 2025. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Installation view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), ‘Asterisks’, Mooroom, Hong Kong. Photo. 2025. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Closed-up view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist.</li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2628840651726437194347196032213/DSCF5501.JPG 1 The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom) 2025 Aged British RAF Ditching Whistle embedded in stainless steel wind pipe, chicken feather broom wrapped in cables, radial blower with reduced outlet, timer relay circuit <ol><li>Installation view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), ‘Asterisks’, Mooroom, Hong Kong. Photo. 2025. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Installation view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), ‘Asterisks’, Mooroom, Hong Kong. Photo. 2025. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Closed-up view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist.</li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li><li>Partial view, The Falling Whistle(and the Chicken Feather Broom), 2025. Photo. Courtesy of the Artist. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2628843685311946859956668835029/DSCF5490.JPG 5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2628843685367287092177797489877/DSCF5499.JPG 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2628843685330393604030378386645/DSCF5489.JPG 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2628843685348840348104087938261/DSCF5495.JPG 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2628843685404180580325216593109/DSCF5536.JPG 2 https://shawnzytph.xyz/muk6hak1 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2142973150545938568822632326357/Muk6Hak1, 2023, fish tank, single-channel video, stereo sound, 11 mins 08 sec 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2145048729766409174082891654357/Fish-Tank.-WATER-LIGHT-LAB-Brixen-2023.-Photo-Studio-Bettina-Pelz--Jennifer-Braun-3.jpeg 1 fish tank Muk6Hak1 2023 Single-channel video installation, colour, sound Muk6 Hak1 is the alphabetic pronunciation in Cantonese which literally translates ‘seeing darkness’. This project investigates the ambiguousness in seeing based on the physiological perspective and further develops into an abstract form. It is an envelope of artistic research on vision, encompassing the natural relationship of two eyes, pupil dilation and constriction according to light intensity, the reflectiveness of cornea, sensitivity of vision, natural reflexes resulting in blinking. By poetic means, it takes the form of a static aesthetic in video essay format, departing from physiology which hence enfolds the obscurity, fragility and authenticity of visual memory. It is also an intention to exemplify the relationship between the spectators and the format of moving image under high contrast of light intensity. The intimacy is layered not only from the abstract illustration on vision but also between the spectators and the perceivable visual before eyes. The repeated image will burn in the memory of spectators in the form of light and shadow, which brings up the touching feeling right on your eyes. <ol><li>Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023, ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank. </li><li> Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023 ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank.</li><li>Video clip, Muk6Hak1, 2023. </li><li>Colour-filtered window for Muk6Hak1 in Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank. </li><li>-10. Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023 in ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank.</li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2145050489124625204131377030357/DSCF5527.JPG 1 fish tank Muk6Hak1 2023 Single-channel video installation, colour, sound Muk6 Hak1 is the alphabetic pronunciation in Cantonese which literally translates ‘seeing darkness’. This project investigates the ambiguousness in seeing based on the physiological perspective and further develops into an abstract form. It is an envelope of artistic research on vision, encompassing the natural relationship of two eyes, pupil dilation and constriction according to light intensity, the reflectiveness of cornea, sensitivity of vision, natural reflexes resulting in blinking. By poetic means, it takes the form of a static aesthetic in video essay format, departing from physiology which hence enfolds the obscurity, fragility and authenticity of visual memory. It is also an intention to exemplify the relationship between the spectators and the format of moving image under high contrast of light intensity. The intimacy is layered not only from the abstract illustration on vision but also between the spectators and the perceivable visual before eyes. The repeated image will burn in the memory of spectators in the form of light and shadow, which brings up the touching feeling right on your eyes. <ol><li>Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023, ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank. </li><li> Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023 ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank.</li><li>Video clip, Muk6Hak1, 2023. </li><li>Colour-filtered window for Muk6Hak1 in Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank. </li><li>-10. Installation view, Muk6Hak1, 2023 in ‘Spill’, WATER LIGHT FESTIVAL, Neustift Abbey, Brixen, Italy. Photo. fish tank.</li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2145051025574389611678847575253/IMG_0692.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2145052614724498073609300190421/IMG_0693.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2145052772167458742720323232981/IMG_0694.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2145053061615320003296897639637/IMG_0696.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2145054007582802847196414059733/IMG_0698.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2145054602195151319150100849877/IMG_0690.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2145058871804747643668079682773/MUK6HAK1.Photo.Fish-Tank.2.jpg 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2145059110948337815238706832597/MUK6HAK1.Photo.Fish-Tank.5.jpg 4 https://shawnzytph.xyz/black-noise(inhibited) 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2142958153711941524431359550677/3Cattle-depot_Photo_Karie-Tsui_black-noise-copy.JPG 1 Black Noise(Inhibited) 2023 Air compressors, acrylic chambers, vibration isolation risers, pressure ducts, vacuum pressure gauge Black Noise (Inhibited) investigates the perception of sound in everyday life, questioning our innate instinct beyond basic sensory. It comprises an enclosed system of air circulation between two chambers, driven by two air compressors. Such compressors are typically found in air conditioning and refrigeration systems, where they generate the white noise associated with the compression of air through pipes and ducts. Due to the high degree of confinement of the medium (air) in these vacuum chambers, it prohibits sound from transmitting, fabricating a state of black noise. <ol><li> Installation view, Black Noise(Inhibited), 2023, ‘Priming Reflex’, N2, Cattle Depot, Hong Kong. Photo. Karie Tsui.</li><li>Detail, Black Noise(Inhibited), 2023. Photo. Karie Tsui. </li><li>Detail, Black Noise(Inhibited), 2023. Photo. Karie Tsui.</li><li>Detail, Black Noise(Inhibited), 2024. Photo. Courtesy of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. </li><li>Installation view, Black Noise(Inhibited), 2024, ‘Sparkles’, Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Sichuan, China. Photo. Courtesy of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2144947140872017364894257358037/9_black-noise.JPG 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2147647537453300865114185245909/7_black-noise.JPG 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2147784582041266756262469936341/b425003af8a5329e139fee6c81c655b8.JPG 5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2147784743966786235284914021589/9d9d2c029f18b44ebca32cc9600a3a04.JPG 4 https://shawnzytph.xyz/inertia(pulse-of-your-dying-heart-equal-mine) 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2142971393124630666513649870037/Inertia (Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022 by Shawn Pak Hin Tang 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2144414380862252928955645797589/Inertia_3.jpeg 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2144417023598149160807138960597/Inertia.jpeg 1 Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine) 2022 240v-to-12v transformers, DC-to-DC converters, clock mechanisms,compass needles A set of 12, each set comprised of 30 to 31 clock devices, dimensions variable The functionality of battery-powered clock mechanisms is compromised, and subsequently re-combined with compass needles, thus enabling their operation via a domestic electricity supply. The conceptual frameworks through which humans comprehend time and space are shaped by inventions designed to measure, quantify and delineate our quotidian existence. Until such phenomena reach a state of submission, the work intervenes in our perceptual sensation, engendering an environment characterised by numbness and anxiety. <ol><li>Partial view, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022, “Your Warmth is the Cut of My Flesh”, Hidden Space, Hong Kong. Photo. Karie Tsui.</li><li>Close-up view, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022, “Your Warmth is the Cut of My Flesh”, Hidden Space, Hong Kong. Photo. Karie Tsui. </li><li>Video preview, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2022. <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/inertia?share=copy" target="_blank">Link: https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/inertia</a> </li><li>Installation view, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2023, “Diachronic Echoes”, Hong Kong Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo. Studio Lights On. </li><li>Partial view, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2023, “Diachronic Echoes”, Hong Kong Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo. Studio Lights On. </li><li>Detail, Inertia(Pulse of Your Dying Heart Equals Mine), 2023, “Diachronic Echoes”, Hong Kong Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity Gallery, Hong Kong. Photo. Studio Lights On. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2157822822967357051459506382037/Diachronic-Echoes_artworks-51.jpg 5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2157835420082864291048918983893/Diachronic-Echoes_artworks-53.jpg 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2157838079328596468870460843221/Diachronic-Echoes_artworks-61.jpg 4 https://shawnzytph.xyz/how-to-incubate-a-coral-1 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2286559597198332974362421208277/SDIM2554.jpg 5 How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body 2025 Solar powered electrolysis of titanium and steel, 150W LED light, satelite dish reflector, water circulation system, mixed media installation Dimesions variable How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body is an analogue system that appropriates the logic of Biorock technology—an electrolysis-based method used in Indonesian coral reef restoration. In traditional Biorock, low-voltage current is applied underwater to stimulate mineral accretion on submerged metal structures, encouraging coral growth. Here, the process is reimagined, simulated, and unsettled. At the heart of the system lies a coral-like structure, welded from metal rebar, submerged in an aquarium of saltwater. Connected as the cathode, it is paired with a titanium mesh anode, forming a closed electrolysis circuit. The entire setup is powered by a solar panel, but the sunlight is replaced by an artificial sun: a high-wattage LED, amplified by a concave reflective antenna dish. This intensified light, nearly blinding, produces an excess of energy that must be cooled to prevent the LED from burning out. A water pump circulates the aquarium liquid through a cooling pipe affixed to the LED’s heat sink, forming a fragile metabolic loop. This system mimics the ecological promise of coral restoration while staging its own techno-paradox: the metal branch exhales electrolysis bubbles as if breathing, yet rust bleeds into the water. The light offers life but threatens destruction. The aquarium becomes a microcosm of precarious hope—where survival depends on a fine balance of energy, toxicity, and time. The work presents a reality on the verge of collapse. It is both a satire and a lament for environmental crisis: a system that feeds itself with artificial brilliance while drifting toward self-contamination. In mimicking restoration, it exposes the tension between healing and harm, simulation and survival. <ol><li>Installation view, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu.</li><li>Video clip, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025.</li><li>Close-up view, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li><li>Video clip, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. </li><li>Partial view, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu.</li><li>Close-up view, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Jimi Liu. </li><li>Close-up view, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Jimi Liu.</li><li>Installation, How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2288158041625009467077779891413/SDIM2551.jpg 8 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2288158041717243187446327649493/SDIM2576.jpg 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2288158041698796443372618097877/SDIM2570.jpg 1 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2288194486525234501712135693525/IMG_6746.JPG 7 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2288195318934560827855652365525/IMG_6730.JPG 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2288220482968255258371941573845/Close-up view, electrolysis of titanium and steel, How to incubate a Coral as Fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2288234479730469090673583039701/Close-up view, inside the aquarium. How to Incubate a Coral as fast as a Contaminated Body, 2025. 4 https://shawnzytph.xyz/grounded 2025-11-02T10:28:57+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2430286297858567447259413587157/1_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 1 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2430287282822467262980922123477/2_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2430288037423427086217550079189/5_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.jpg 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2430289276232972100256198403285/3_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.JPG 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2430295017726724810133010228437/DSCF0588.JPG 3 Grounded 2025Domestic lamps intervened by fluorescent starters, electromagnetic field frequency probe, limestone sculpture, steel branches with ultrasonic transducers, timer relay, ultrasonic frequency radios and headphones Dimensions variables Grounded is a sculptural sound installation that explores the parallel stresses experienced by coral reefs and the human psyche under the climate crisis. Coral-like steel branches, welded from rebar and embedded in limestone, function simultaneously as sculptural forms and transmitters of ultrasonic frequencies. These frequencies, inaudible to the naked ear and accessible only through handheld radios and headphones, originate from unstable electrical currents—fluctuations that also cause the surrounding lamps to flicker erratically. In this configuration, the installation translates the instability of electricity—its 'frustration'—into both light and sound. The branches, acting as conductors of this signal, embody an ambiguous tension between malfunction and vitality. Visitors navigate this environment by tuning into the otherwise imperceptible: a sound that resembles a healthy coral reef, yet is rooted in uncertainty. Grounded stages a paradoxical experience—one where the absence of water is saturated with electrical anxiety, and where stress, like current, accumulates quietly in the everyday. This ambiguity is both personal and intentional. The installation does not seek resolution; instead, it offers space to acknowledge how crisis seeps into daily life, into our bodies, into the nervous flicker of the lights we live with. The soundscape becomes a personal projection—a means of transmitting inner tensions through external materials. In this sense, Grounded is as much a scenario as it is a sculpture, layered with care over crisis. Ultimately, through the vulnerability of bodies—both human and nonhuman—it asks: How conscious are we when we switch on a lamp? <ol><li>Installation view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Handheld ultrasonic frequency Radio for listening, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Video Documentation, Grounded, 2025, <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025" target="_blank">Link: https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025</a> </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li> </ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2430334513958227309285427487957/Grounded, 2025, Video documentation 5 https://shawnzytph.xyz/redwood 2025-12-31T09:25:27+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2430287282822467262980922123477/2_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 1 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2705796065077737698472239670485/DSCF9332.JPG 3 Redwood(Three Chinese Wooden Chairs) 2025 Tree stabilising hardware, mini-vibrating device embedded in old chinese wood chair fragments, VHF radio receiver Dimensions variables Redwood reassembles old Chinese wooden chairs into a long, skeletal structure recalling a tree stabiliser for an invisible trunk. Each joint carries a tiny vibration device, quivering in response to distant VHF radio signals. The work suggests a ghosted ecology—wood transformed, displaced, and reconfigured through invisible networks of movement. In its faint tremors, Redwood holds space for what has been taken and what continues to echo through traded materials. <ol><li>Installation view, Redwood(Three Chinese Wooden Chairs), 2025. Moordn Art, Guangzhou, China.</li><li>-4. Partial view, Redwood(Three Chinese Wooden Chairs), 2025. Moordn Art, Guangzhou, China. </li> </ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2705796064967057234029982360789/DSCF9330.JPG 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2705796065114631186619658773717/DSCF9327.JPG 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2705796065096184442545949222101/DSCF9350.JPG 1 https://shawnzytph.xyz/remember-that 2025-12-31T09:25:28+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2430286297858567447259413587157/1_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 1 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2430287282822467262980922123477/2_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2430288037423427086217550079189/5_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.jpg 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2430289276232972100256198403285/3_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.JPG 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2430295017726724810133010228437/DSCF0588.JPG 3 Grounded 2025Domestic lamps intervened by fluorescent starters, electromagnetic field frequency probe, limestone sculpture, steel branches with ultrasonic transducers, timer relay, ultrasonic frequency radios and headphones Dimensions variables Grounded is a sculptural sound installation that explores the parallel stresses experienced by coral reefs and the human psyche under the climate crisis. Coral-like steel branches, welded from rebar and embedded in limestone, function simultaneously as sculptural forms and transmitters of ultrasonic frequencies. These frequencies, inaudible to the naked ear and accessible only through handheld radios and headphones, originate from unstable electrical currents—fluctuations that also cause the surrounding lamps to flicker erratically. In this configuration, the installation translates the instability of electricity—its 'frustration'—into both light and sound. The branches, acting as conductors of this signal, embody an ambiguous tension between malfunction and vitality. Visitors navigate this environment by tuning into the otherwise imperceptible: a sound that resembles a healthy coral reef, yet is rooted in uncertainty. Grounded stages a paradoxical experience—one where the absence of water is saturated with electrical anxiety, and where stress, like current, accumulates quietly in the everyday. This ambiguity is both personal and intentional. The installation does not seek resolution; instead, it offers space to acknowledge how crisis seeps into daily life, into our bodies, into the nervous flicker of the lights we live with. The soundscape becomes a personal projection—a means of transmitting inner tensions through external materials. In this sense, Grounded is as much a scenario as it is a sculpture, layered with care over crisis. Ultimately, through the vulnerability of bodies—both human and nonhuman—it asks: How conscious are we when we switch on a lamp? <ol><li>Installation view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Handheld ultrasonic frequency Radio for listening, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Video Documentation, Grounded, 2025, <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025" target="_blank">Link: https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025</a> </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li> </ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2430334513958227309285427487957/Grounded, 2025, Video documentation 5 https://shawnzytph.xyz/antenna 2025-12-31T09:25:28+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2430286297858567447259413587157/1_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 1 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2430287282822467262980922123477/2_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang.JPG 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2430288037423427086217550079189/5_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.jpg 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2430289276232972100256198403285/3_Grounded_Photo_Shawn-Pak-Hin-Tang-2.JPG 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y2430295017726724810133010228437/DSCF0588.JPG 3 Grounded 2025Domestic lamps intervened by fluorescent starters, electromagnetic field frequency probe, limestone sculpture, steel branches with ultrasonic transducers, timer relay, ultrasonic frequency radios and headphones Dimensions variables Grounded is a sculptural sound installation that explores the parallel stresses experienced by coral reefs and the human psyche under the climate crisis. Coral-like steel branches, welded from rebar and embedded in limestone, function simultaneously as sculptural forms and transmitters of ultrasonic frequencies. These frequencies, inaudible to the naked ear and accessible only through handheld radios and headphones, originate from unstable electrical currents—fluctuations that also cause the surrounding lamps to flicker erratically. In this configuration, the installation translates the instability of electricity—its 'frustration'—into both light and sound. The branches, acting as conductors of this signal, embody an ambiguous tension between malfunction and vitality. Visitors navigate this environment by tuning into the otherwise imperceptible: a sound that resembles a healthy coral reef, yet is rooted in uncertainty. Grounded stages a paradoxical experience—one where the absence of water is saturated with electrical anxiety, and where stress, like current, accumulates quietly in the everyday. This ambiguity is both personal and intentional. The installation does not seek resolution; instead, it offers space to acknowledge how crisis seeps into daily life, into our bodies, into the nervous flicker of the lights we live with. The soundscape becomes a personal projection—a means of transmitting inner tensions through external materials. In this sense, Grounded is as much a scenario as it is a sculpture, layered with care over crisis. Ultimately, through the vulnerability of bodies—both human and nonhuman—it asks: How conscious are we when we switch on a lamp? <ol><li>Installation view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Handheld ultrasonic frequency Radio for listening, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li><li>Video Documentation, Grounded, 2025, <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025" target="_blank">Link: https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/grounded2025</a> </li><li>Partial view, Grounded, 2025. “I hope this finds you well”, Halle I, Hochschule für Kunste Bremen, Bremen, Germany. </li> </ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2430334513958227309285427487957/Grounded, 2025, Video documentation 5 https://shawnzytph.xyz/eardrum 2025-12-31T09:25:27+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2144417023598149160807138960597/Inertia.jpeg 1 Eardrum 2025 Dead coral fragment, vibration speakers attached on thundersheet, duo-sound channel installation Eardrum is a sound installation that transforms any audio input into a resonant, tactile experience through a percussive metal surface. At its core is a thundersheet—an industrially thin sheet of metal—onto which two vibration speakers are affixed. These transducers convert sound into tremors, turning sonic information into an embodied vibration that evokes the deep, atmospheric rumble of thunder. Sound here is not simply heard but physically felt, absorbed through the trembling surface. In this iteration, the installation engages with two audio channels derived from video documentation recorded on the island of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. One audio track captures the ambient sounds of a dumpsite located at the island’s center—a site of waste accumulation, decay, and neglect. The other records the underwater serenity of a coral reef restoration site along the island’s shore—a space of care, regrowth, and ecological intervention. It acts as the shared membrane through which these two contrasting environments confront one another. The thundersheet becomes a site of collision, echoing the tension between destruction and restoration, contamination and healing. It performs a sonorous politics: the sonic confrontation embodies the contradictions of a nation whose environmental future is suspended between extractive neglect and regenerative hope. Rather than presenting sound as a neutral medium, Eardrum amplifies its corporeality—transforming it into a trembling political surface. It resonates with the fragility of ecological systems, the violence of waste, and the pulse of human effort embedded within acts of care. In doing so, it listens with the body, vibrating at the frequency where landscape becomes symptom and the environment becomes speaker. <ol><li>Installation view, Eardrum, 2025, “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen. Photo. Hsun Hsiang Hsu.</li><li>Close-up view, Eardrum, 2025, “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen. Photo. Hsun Hsiang Hsu. </li><li>Video clip, Eardrum, 2025. <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/inertia?share=copy" target="_blank">Link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1072824246" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1072824246</a></a> </li><li>Partial view, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li><li>Partial view, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li><li>Video excerpt, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. </li><li>Video excerpt, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2293057248723832188519810704597/portrait_eardrum_pie_2.jpg 2 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2302357272571676681848769324245/landscape_eardrum_pie.jpg 1 Eardrum 2025 Dead coral fragment, vibration speakers attached on thundersheet, duo-sound channel installation Eardrum is a sound installation that transforms any audio input into a resonant, tactile experience through a percussive metal surface. At its core is a thundersheet—an industrially thin sheet of metal—onto which two vibration speakers are affixed. These transducers convert sound into tremors, turning sonic information into an embodied vibration that evokes the deep, atmospheric rumble of thunder. Sound here is not simply heard but physically felt, absorbed through the trembling surface. In this iteration, the installation engages with two audio channels derived from video documentation recorded on the island of Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. One audio track captures the ambient sounds of a dumpsite located at the island’s center—a site of waste accumulation, decay, and neglect. The other records the underwater serenity of a coral reef restoration site along the island’s shore—a space of care, regrowth, and ecological intervention. It acts as the shared membrane through which these two contrasting environments confront one another. The thundersheet becomes a site of collision, echoing the tension between destruction and restoration, contamination and healing. It performs a sonorous politics: the sonic confrontation embodies the contradictions of a nation whose environmental future is suspended between extractive neglect and regenerative hope. Rather than presenting sound as a neutral medium, Eardrum amplifies its corporeality—transforming it into a trembling political surface. It resonates with the fragility of ecological systems, the violence of waste, and the pulse of human effort embedded within acts of care. In doing so, it listens with the body, vibrating at the frequency where landscape becomes symptom and the environment becomes speaker. <ol><li>Installation view, Eardrum, 2025, “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen. Photo. Hsun Hsiang Hsu.</li><li>Close-up view, Eardrum, 2025, “High Tide Low Current”, Dauerwelle, Bremen. Photo. Hsun Hsiang Hsu. </li><li>Video clip, Eardrum, 2025. <a href="https://vimeo.com/fishtankzip/inertia?share=copy" target="_blank">Link: <a href="https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1072824246" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1072824246</a></a> </li><li>Partial view, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li><li>Partial view, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. Photo. Hsun Hiang Hsu. </li><li>Video excerpt, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. </li><li>Video excerpt, Strangers from Beneath the Land and Beyond the Ocean (Biorock Application on Coral Reef Restoration and Touring at the Dump Site on an Island), 2024, “Yours strangers”, Den Haag, Netherlands. </li></ol> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2302363094437893320878097540309/Eardrum_channel4.jpg 3 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/B2302363094400999832730678437077/Eardrum_channel2.jpg 5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2302373075509943003273738167509/Close-up view, Eardrum, 2025, Dead Coral on thundersheet, vibration speakers, sound installation 4 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2302374018267692378347792606421/Screenshots.001.jpeg 6 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O2302374435477703093436721505493/Screenshots.002.jpeg 7 https://shawnzytph.xyz/cv 2025-12-31T09:25:27+00:00 always 0.5