“be back soon: unit 13 going-away (for a while) party” at Videotage, Hong Kong

Live Visual / Audio-Visual Performance/ with the black sea / ard 35 mins / 18.10.2025 (Sat 六)

This audiovisual performance, developed in collaboration with the black sea and presented at be back soon: unit 13 going-away (for a while) party at Videotage, Hong Kong, explores live visuals as a responsive and performative image practice. Rather than presenting a fixed sequence, the moving images were generated, recomposed, and transformed in real time in dialogue with sound.

The visual system was built in TouchDesigner using short animated loops as modular image elements. During the performance, these loops were manipulated live and processed through visual effects, allowing the image to remain unstable, rhythmic, and open to improvisation. In this way, the visuals did not function simply as accompaniment, but as an active component of the performance, shaping its atmosphere and temporal flow together with the sound.

The project reflects my ongoing interest in live cinema and expanded animation, particularly in how simple image materials can be reactivated through performance. By treating animation loops as live input rather than fixed content, the work approaches moving image as something contingent, performative, and relational. The audiovisual performance became a temporary space in which sound and image continuously adjusted to one another in the moment of presentation.

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Credits

Director & Animation: Ria ZHANG Riwen

Photography: Ria ZHANG Riwen, Sky KUNG

Music and Sound: Sky KUNG

Country: Hong Kong

Length: 3'54"

Frame rate: 12

Resolution: 3840×2160

Year: 2025

Special thanks to

Max HATTLER, CHEUNG Yan Yi, PARK Ji Yun, YU Wing Yan, Scarlett TY Lok Yi, CHEN Yilin, Valerie YING, WANG Shu Xin, Michael Plant, LI Hao, CCIDA, HKDEA

This project is funded by the 12th Animation Support Program.

Awards

⋆˚✿˖° Certificate of Merit, The Best of Animation (Start-ups) Award, Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Association (HKDEA), 2025.

Screening / Exhibitions

: ̗̀➛ 12th Animation Support Program”(12th ASP) Awards Presentation Ceremony cum Premiere, Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 20 May 2025