The production of “beauty” within a temporal experience is a central discursive element in the video/installation works of artist and educator Hu Jieming. His recent pieces incorporate long swaths of video into large-scale installations that investigate how beauty is produced through raw materials. His installation Overture-Tai Chi (currently on display in Shanghai’s Chronus Art Center) is the latest, and in some ways the most extreme, expression of this idea.

Drawing on elements of everyday life as well as cultural-historical documents, how do Hu’s video manipulations position themselves in relation to memory? How do flashbacks and flash-forwards act as material within his installations? Hu challenges the idea of balance in art, using its innate potential to create a “balance of extremes.” The artist believes that the balance expressed by this floating state is concentrated within the present moment—an instantaneous beauty.

In this discussion with UCCA Director Philip Tinari, Hu Jieming will draw on his works to address these questions and discuss his recent installation Overture-Tai Chi.

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