I Want to Speak with You

I Want to Speak with You brings together the artist’s mother in China and a Chinese migrant woman in London through a three-channel installation. The audience encounters the work through a red pushable cart: a screen-based, sensor-driven structure that holds videos, sound, drawings, flowers, textiles, and hidden objects.

How can an interactive installation stage a dialogue between women whose lives are shaped by different forms of family expectation, migration, silence, and resilience?

The project combines personal interviews, field recordings, moving image, installation objects, and sensor-based interaction. Rather than presenting a linear documentary, it constructs a fragmented environment where the audience must physically intervene in order to activate the central narrative.

The cart uses an IMU sensor connected to a microcontroller. Motion data is sent to TouchDesigner, where it triggers video and audio transitions across the three-channel system.

Audience members push the cart to trigger the central screen. The action of pushing becomes symbolic: communication across silence requires effort, bodily movement, and a willingness to disturb the existing arrangement.

The red cart functions as both vessel and threshold: it carries drawings, screens, voices, cables, flowers, and family traces. It also becomes the first visual anchor for the broader website identity: a red thread connecting women’s labour, silence, memory, and mediated presence.

一个通过红色可推动小车、三屏影像、声音和物件，探讨跨代沉默、女性韧性与被媒介化对话的参与式装置。