Youjia Lu
PhD
My research titled Indeterminate Self asks two key questions: 'can an experimental approach to the video medium challenge a conventional way of seeing and knowing when what is seen and known cannot be determined?' and, 'can a video art practice provide a model for a way of living when the indeterminate way of seeing and knowing challenges and renews a sense of Self?'
My artistic practice responds to these questions by exploring the elusive onto-epistemological relation between indeterminacy and the Self through three series of video experiments. Using devices such as flickering light and a rapid intercutting video editing method, these video experiments reveal the indeterminacy between to see what happens and seeing what is happening; between seeing with and without a Self, to experience the 'Indeterminate Self' in various durational, spatial and perceptual conditions.
