missTANGQ

Wood, plywood, moss, plexiglass, bamboo, brass, water, interactive media

14’ x 9’ x 9’

2016

The Oracle is an interactive installation created by missTANGQ and Louis Chinn, featuring creative coder Tiffany Ta. Housed in a fully immersive temple space, the installation gives audience members a customized reading using the ancient Chinese divination system, the Yi Jing. Participants ask a question for which they seek advice, and a reading is triggered through interactive technology. Images and sound envelop the user, through animations that play at the bottom of a well and original music in a surround sound environment. Previously shown at the Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park and Seattle Asian Art Museum.

Mixed media projection, wood and paper lanterns, LED lights, electric motor

8’x8’x10’

2018

Uniting traditional forms with reclaimed mythologies, this work honors Asian ancestors with illuminated paper lanterns and projected stop-motion animations. This immersive installation invites audiences to become submerged in the alchemy of remembrance, where one’s inheritance and history intermingles with the creative power of incarnation. From the ocean to human tears, the element of saltwater holds and preserves while simultaneously releases and cleanses. The choreography of light and shadow is emblematic of the dance between life and death, waking and dreaming, the visible and invisible worlds. These liminal spaces are where our past co-mingles with the creativity of emergence, symbolized by the hybridization of human, animal and plant forms.

Both light and water are elements of reflection and the installation is designed to be a space for meditation, remembrance and inspiration.

Animations by missTANGQ. Lanterns by Kristiana Chan. Created for the Dia De Los Muertos Exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center.

Acrylic, Plastic, Foam, Plywood, LED lights, Natural Materials

40’ x 8’ x 5’

2017
Multimedia installation, sculpture and mural commissioned by the Seattle Asian Art Museum.