Regarding your work and also yourself, do you have any expectations of your residency at studio das weisse haus in Vienna?                      My concept for the residency is exploring the duration of my stay here in itself. I am thinking of a system, a cycle or a process of doing a project for a certain period of time. I am thinking of what I could possible learn and contribute while I’m here. I think it’s more important what I can experience here, rather what I am going to “make”. I’m thinking that it’s pointless to make something that I could actually make at my own studio back home. What I cannot do there is to feel myself being here and explore the city of Vienna. I consider the experience will be the work in itself. This is how I want to look at it. What kinds of connection will I’m going to have in this specific place? What is the essence of a residency? What is the connection of this place and the people navigating within to what I’m about to experience here? Art residencies are forms of hosting. What fascinate me are the invisible hosts. One example is the sewer system. This being covered by concrete and city planning, hosting secretions. I’m curious how secreted matters circulate underground in a sewerage system. How does a sewage system process them, before transforming and returning them back into the vast body of water? As with the camera is a host too. It takes in light that produce a picture. Using works from past and on-­‐going residencies, my attempt is to follow and observe the paths of water, such as rivers and canals. I like to investigate around the undulating flow of water within the urban and rural landscape. Look for the various channels that connect the daily activity of the people within an area. The captured lights could traverse and evolve around the exhibition space that will continually explore the possibilities of engagement within my immersion period. Producing something is a secondary thing. It’s the basis of that search and perception. The things that will inspire me from this exploration will be the traces of my experience. I want to find some kind of connection to the exhibition space and to what’s going on outside.                                   

Since you have already exhibited several times in Graz, what is your impression of the Austrian art scene or cultural landscape?               It’s so hard to give my impression. I didn’t have enough time to immerse myself with the artscene. Most of the time when you are given a slot for an exhibition, you’re so occupied dealing with all these problems setting up for the exhibition. But I have met wonderful artist friends here. Artists that I have met from previous stays, which open, up my mind on their unique thoughts of thinking. It’s a quite a busy scene. Many things are going on and it’s impossible to see everything. I was introduced to Naschmarkt by Yoshinori Niwa, an artist friend from Japan who is now base here in Vienna. I find Naschmarkt as a good source of material for art projects. It somehow makes sense to the idea that I am trying to develop for the residency: All these things that we consume, we digest goes to certain flow of system. Which also brings me to the concept of recycling. How things end up in a second hand shop? How people reutilize it before the leftovers being pushed to the damn trucks. Seeing these kinds of thing is very interesting to me when you like to tackle about the art scene. Where are the possible sources for the artists to find their materials in making works? What happens to the objects that we created afterwards, where does it end up?