Projects — Renxing.Zhou

Before the earthquake happened,
the brain had worked overtime.
The architechture and the system started to shake.
You ducked and covered, as you were taught.
You play the game to lose control.
Watched by the concerned spectators,
the vessel liquefied the layers of soil.
Leaked out as a workaholics soul.
Mental restrains caused by control.
Little mistakes are taken by the waves.
From the journey you will withdraw.

Time for Feierabend.

Renxing Zhou Helin Sezen Korkmaz Feierabend
2023，Video and Sound installation
00 : 16 : 30
Exhibition in Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf

In “Feierabend” we are investigating the haunting nature of sound and any sort of oscillation that left their fingerprints on our prenatal and postnatal perception of the “unseen”.Traveling with myths and aural history, their lack of credibility have a huge effect on our definition of “uncanny” today.

It is how we translate our memories and how we resonate with the perceivers. The memory that we translate is the experience we had with the natural phenomenon “earthquake”; both physically and emotionally. “Earthquake” is a force that humans cannot escape from and where the artificial systems of control become insufficient.

The fear of the unseen and the immensity of the scale of earth’s forces translate themselves into an entity that is trapped in its own bitter insufficiency while working after the official working hours, the so called “Feierabend”. Imprudent and slightly weary; the protagonist loses the sense of orientation and purpose. Time and space start to warp; the doors opening and closing trigger an unstoppable feedback and the protagonist keeps on searching for the flighty source of sound.

In the exhibition room, the visitors are meant to be in the realm of their own creations, but you are also creating and experiencing yourself. The incredibility of this new space we intend to create means to question the causality between action and reaction in terms of sound.

Director:
Helin Sezen Korkmarz
Renxing Zhou
Camera:
Ayham Khalifeh
Bernard Mescherowsky
Cast:
Serdar Altan

Set design:
Sara Milić
Sound:
Mengting Xing
Sound design:
Helin Sezen Korkmaz
VFX:
Renxing Zhou