TradeWinds Series
- TradeWinds(2021, Canada)
- TradeWinds: Meteor Garden(2022, Taiwan)
- TradeWinds: PierUno (2022, Cebu)
- TradeWinds4(2023, Manila)
The word ‘TradeWinds’ derived from the wind that powered the European Colonial expansion. While galleon trades relied on wind and nature, TradeWinds on the other hand is built on top of modern web technologies and the internet.
The project consists of two components:
In TradeWinds the featured images are crowd-sourced from collaborators and the live audiences.
The TradeWinds series experiments on how images in contemporary times are shared, generated, processed, and saturated.
TradeWinds4
TradeWinds: Pier Uno
TradeWinds:PierUno
2022 Visayas Art Fair Special Project
TradeWinds: Meteor Garden
Trade Winds_Meteor Garden
10,000 Flowers Groupshow, 2022
Projected digital interactive collage installation
part of exhibition 10000 Flowers, curated by: Gloria Demichelis ,Lo Lok Yin , Yee Chung Kee, Yuji de Torres
TradeWinds_Meteor Garden is the second iteration of the Trade_Winds series. KoloWn’s Trade_Winds explores poetically the effect of exchanges of culture, products and ideas in the globalized world. The title is taken from the Taiwanes Drama Series and one of the first famous “Asianovela ” that was brought to the Philippines in 2003. TradeWinds_Meteor Garden features a generative collage that resembles an ambiguous landscape-painting-inspired composition. The elements will be taken from various sources; from past historical paintings, contemporary internet to pop culture and crowdsourced images from both Taiwan and the Philippines that respond to the participants’ interpretation of “freedom”. The installation setup will provide a QR code that would redirect to a website that has a button. If the audience will press the button, it will trigger the elements to appear randomly within the composition. The composition that will be generated could be a rough sketch of the contemporary globalized world. Is it harmonious or is it full of contradictions? Is it heaven or is it hell? Do our actions have an impact on the bigger picture?
TradeWinds
TradeWinds
Tuloy Tawid Groupshow, 2021
crowdsourced trash images from Canada
TradeWinds (taken from the wind that powers European Colonial expansion) is a browser-based work that can be accessed using smartphones, laptops or anything with a web browser.
In response to the current lockdowns imposed to curb the global pandemic, TradeWinds is accessible, as well as flexible in its presentation. For this exhibition, it has been adapted for indoor viewing, but can be modified for different environments.
This work features images of trash crowdsourced from people residing in Canada. Randomly appearing on the screen, the garbage is powerful in its multitude and relentless demand to be seen. Interestingly, the Canadian contributions present a global representation of trash. This is a powerful reminder that such goods cross oceans throughout its lifecycle from raw material to material waste.
