Mingcheng Song






At the time of making Three Scenes From a Bedroom I was getting into the world of computer generated imageries. However, my initial attempts were met with great resistance. The bleakness of the digital landscape rendered even the most intimate scenes oblique.

For the audio I sampled a short "documentary" about a young porn actor named Paul who worked for a company that produced "gay-for-pay" contents (it was since taken down from YouTube). The clip was incredibly revealing of Paul's personal life, but it was also laden with corporeal agenda, which confused Paul with the straight men he would go on to portray.

The structure was essentially an elaborate frame to hold together my research interests. It's also one of the rare instances where the frames ended up with more resolution than the pictures.

Dec 26, 2020
Three Scenes From a Bedroom, 2019
phone, tablet, laptop, metal, hardware, bedframe, plastic, thread, fishing hook, dyed shirt, pillows, curtains

Crash Course is a love letter in two parts. I found the footages of the prononciator on spanishdict.com (they still could be found there under the pronunciation tab). The prononciator was handsome, reserved, even a little melancholic, although I knew it was his job to be calm and articulate. In this pacified state, the pronunciator posed as a perfectly neutral canvas, but I was terrified to put my desires on display.

The idea of a pair breaks down relationships into simpler, and often dichotomous terms: teacher/student, native/foreign, amorous subject/beloved object. As one half of a pair, we experience emotional complexities through the constant readjustment of our perceptions in relation to reality. Casting an infatuated gaze, I broke out of the bounds of my restraints and crashed gloriously.


Dec 24, 2020
Crash Course, 2019
two-channel video installation
El Perrito, 2019
performance stills