As a responsive space, the work investigates a phenomenological approach to the memory of water, visualizing a future where water is memorable. Informed by Queer Ecology and the ways inner nature worlds communicate their stress, Liaw utilizes interactive audio-visual technology to allow viewers to become a part of the space and meditate on their embodied relationships with the natural world. With web-found sound recordings of glaciers crashing worldwide, calling tidal holds an aliveness with breath and quite literally cries, just like humans.

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As so-called “Metro-Vancouver” has one remaining glacier, Liaw is interested in how society publicizes climate change and how it connects with others’ anxieties surrounding the future. Thus, the work’s perspective is exploring the ways glacial environments are communicative with their rapid changing form locally and non-locally.  Liaw’s interactive approaches to the installation are inspired by the ways geoscientists document the changes in glacial shape-shifting through LiDAR and colour recordings. Within a complex world that is more-than-human, Liaw is intrigued by how depth of equity is issued and how it can be embraced through the fluidity of non-human and human bodies, depicting a time-capsule of water.
 

Produced by Recorded Movement Society's 2022-2023

Technology and Interaction Artist in Residence

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Presented by F-O-R-M Film Festival (Nov 2023),

Work-in-Progress Exhibition (Mar 2023)

Co-Commissioning Partner Charles Street Video

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Sound Design Collaborator: Dino Hajdarovac
Climate Mentor: Chaprece Henry
New Media Mentor: Nancy Lee
 

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