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Musical Wheel ( 2008 ) Interactive Installation
Commissioned by Osage. Musical Wheel is a site-specific interactive installation commissioned by the Osage Art Foundation. The work is inspired by the context of the Osage Gallery, located in Kwun Tong, the earliest and most representative industrial quarter in Hong Kong. The gallery is nestled in a district which sings an interesting, orchestral tune on a daily basis. There are men repairing car wheels, people pushing trolleys, forklifts transporting goods, ventilation fans humming, printing drums turning, weaving machines looming. This collective rotational energy of the working class becomes a core essence of the work. It intends to bring together and intricately link two polarities of centripetal energy: the everyday human instances and the universal celestial movement. The work takes form as a rotational wheel six meters in diameter, where participants are invited to situate themselves inside the work. On the rotational ring, there are nine pieces of curved wooden soundboards mounted with hundreds of strings: as the boards turn slowly, the strings create ambient music from all four panels the wheel. While the participants rest their back onto the rotational soundboards, lights resembling time-lapse photography of a rotational night sky project onto the ceiling from the ground. As the strings in higher melodic tone are plucked, the lights release its circular momentum.

Musical Wheel ( 2008 ) Interactive Installation

Musical Wheel ( 2008 ) Interactive Installation

Musical Wheel ( 2008 ) Interactive Installation

Musical Wheel ( 2008 ) Interactive Installation