Inertia
(The Pulse of Your Dying Hearts Equals Mine)
2022, 240v-to-12v transformers, DC-to-DC converters, clock mechanisms, compass needles
Shawn Pakhin Tang
(The Pulse of Your Dying Hearts Equals Mine)
2022, 240v-to-12v transformers, DC-to-DC converters, clock mechanisms, compass needles
Shawn Pakhin Tang
About the Artwork:
Shawn Pakhin Tang’s contribution to the Cabinet of Curiosities collection takes the form of a network of battery powered clocks that have had their second hands replaced by compass needles, and rewired to run on a domestic electricity supply.
By re-purposing thirty of these mass-produced instruments he present a confusion of time and magnetism, which poetically alternates between moments of spinning chaos and reassuring realignment.
Shawn Pakhin Tang’s contribution to the Cabinet of Curiosities collection takes the form of a network of battery powered clocks that have had their second hands replaced by compass needles, and rewired to run on a domestic electricity supply.
By re-purposing thirty of these mass-produced instruments he present a confusion of time and magnetism, which poetically alternates between moments of spinning chaos and reassuring realignment.
TANG Shawn Pakhin:
Shawn Pakhin Tang received his bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and is currently undertaking his MA at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany. His expansive creative practice encompasses a diverse range concepts, forms and mediums. His sculptures and installations present combinations and manipulations of found objects, industrial materials, and analogue electronic-related components. Tang’s artworks have been exhibited in Germany, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and recent notable exhibitions include ‘Sojourners of the World’ (AVA, 2022), ‘Landescape 0.3’ (2021), ‘Residual Heat’ (Axel Vervoordt Gallery 2021), and ‘BED THROW’ (Wure Area, 2021).
Shawn Pakhin Tang received his bachelor’s degree from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and is currently undertaking his MA at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany. His expansive creative practice encompasses a diverse range concepts, forms and mediums. His sculptures and installations present combinations and manipulations of found objects, industrial materials, and analogue electronic-related components. Tang’s artworks have been exhibited in Germany, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and recent notable exhibitions include ‘Sojourners of the World’ (AVA, 2022), ‘Landescape 0.3’ (2021), ‘Residual Heat’ (Axel Vervoordt Gallery 2021), and ‘BED THROW’ (Wure Area, 2021).
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