WANTED

by Sybil Xyshen
December 10 – 22, 2024
Lobby Screen Array
SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver

WANTED (2024) is a short filmic experiment that investigates the in-between. As a reiteration of Xyshen’s multimedia performance and installation 3 acts of love (as an adj.), this work places the emphasis on form, exploring the effects of colour, shape, repetition and duration, and embraces each crevasse and collision between the image-film and sound-film. Using crimes of passion as a metaphor for intrusive desire, Wanted seeks to capture the intent and sensation of an escape.

Biography

Sybil Xyshen (she/her) is a Chinese-Canadian interdisciplinary artist, writer and performer, based in Vancouver on the traditional territories of the xʷmə θkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh(Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. In her work, Xyshen explores the play of senses and the materiality of the mind through fragmented narrative structures.  

credits 

written and performed - Sybil Xyshen 

directed studies with Erika Latta 

camera - Heesoo Won, Min Kim, Diana Ma 

sound design - Min Kim, Sybil Xyshen 

editing - Sybil Xyshen 

special thanks - Lexi Chang, HaziHaus, EPFC