Soup
2026
4′11″, Single-channel video with sound
The piece expands the spatial depth of a screen by paralleling boundaries between a browser interface and a digital video. The screen functions as an interface, reflecting a flattened compression of digital labor under the ontological metaphor of soup, through the act of typing behind the screen.
Adopting myself as an ‘online typist’ as a flexible mode of occupation, this idea of intervention branches out from Cornelia Sollfrank’s hacking tactics during the net art-era, as well as the arrival history of female typists in office culture.
Within the complex network of digitality, technology and biological life, my approach here is to carry out a ‘soft slam poetry’ recipe. The narrative here neither builds from a database, nor a linear structure. Instead, this is a recipe interwoven with gentle care, glitching through a feminine power.
Currency the work is set to be viewed at any desktops, the primary visual component is the background that moves slowly with liquid rainbow gradient. It embodies the notion of a bowl of soup, this could be scaled up in a semi-dark room, where the audience would be infused in a set of lighting glowing out of the screen.
‘Hand-typing’ Recipe – Sometimes, a glitch is necessary. The same goes for care.
Glitch aesthetics celebrate technical failures as visual languages transforming from its origins of unexpected malfunctions. My intention here is to expose the activeness of occupation (as in a labor and an intervention), a rejection of digital hyperrealism. This ‘visual poem’ merges recipe-like structures, functioning as a DIY guide rooted in a ‘soft manifesto’ ethos.
Ultimately, this video serves as a spoiler to my ongoing theoretical and practical exploration of digitality and hyperrealism.
