“Drift Bottles” by Huang Shi
Title:
- Drift Bottles
Artist(s) and People Involved:
Exhibiting Artist(s):
Symposium:
Venue(s):
Medium:
- Interactive installation, 5 glass bottles, mp3 players/recorders, speakers and microphones, processors, batteries
Artist Statement:
Drift Bottles is Huang Shi’s reinvention of a lost legacy when medieval sailors communicated by drifting bottles. Today, broadcast media, cell phones, and the Internet and have radically altered our patterns of communication and instantaneous connectivity is simple. Drift Bottles reintroduce the notions of surprise and chance in our daily interactions.
Other Information:
Curated by Zhang Ga
