The world is full of noise. While we are disturbed by it a lot, we get so used to it that we can sometimes enjoy it, too. This is a time of “digital texture.” Visual perception is fragmented and with a digital rhythm. Line-by-line arrangement becomes the way for data transmission. Hearing is subject to repeated sound effects and gradually changes our pace of living. Life is all about finding new tunes, new matches, and new exchange. Because life is complicated, some people do want to get rid of the redundant elements in life. But most still keep the old lifestyle because they have become so unwittingly addicted to it.
Shock Derailment is edited on a “sound track” basis. It is both the axis and the variation for creating images. The soundtracks are edited 100% manually inserted through a “non-programmed encoding” process to create fluctuations. Images are kept in a passive position to be destructed and deconstructed. In a way this also enhances the audio and rhythmic nature in visual perception. The music derives from various digital sound effects, presenting sounds fluctuating like waves and a digital technology ambience through repetitions or intermezzos. I asked the models to take off their clothes in three different ways. Each of them repeated the act for 30 times during the shoot. Then, I collaged their images into 90 different strips, so that their movements look incongruous, as if being torn and pulled by time. This then creates a crack in the viewers’ emotions: they feel shock as they are impacted by these images.