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Suzhou / Los Angeles, 2002
My name is Yizhen Shi, as indicated on my worn-out travel documents, born in 2002, Suzhou, China; or Kristopher, self-invented while migrating across the Pacific and traversing the continent; or kristopheraloooof, typed, on-and-off the Internet I grew up through. Then, I unroll the axis of temporality, and find there is no continuous narrative arc to write an autobiography along. I’m a constant migratory being, accumulating breadth across novelties. Causation doesn’t help. So, If everything carries a history, how do I make this history of the constantly migratory legible?
I, then, imagine there is a map wherein I lay the fragments of my past—the only past I have full access to—geographically. As a media artist, I tend to parse these scattered dots as data: datas as images, footages, doodles and letters, or written memories. Then I channel them into provisional databases in my way. The database needs navigating, as the map needs cartography. I thus design space for them: a book compiling visual topologies, a game functioning as a gallery, or a video rendering impossible landscapes.
Walk into the space, imagine a map and an axis of temporality. Do you see them weaving into each other, impalpably? I probe them anyway, in a life-long compiling, which I would temporarily call, art.
Email: kristopherapirinxxx@gmail.com
IG @kristopheraloooof