Tielin Ding
Artist Statement
When I entered the subway station in Beijing, I would get tight security examining via X-rays. Everyone’s daily information was exposed to the immoderate monitoring systems.I hoped to create more fun to the audience , making them aware of how we are being constantly monitored in everyday life.After a long period of communication with those subway staff, I finally got the chance to work with the subway security supervisors and created some interesting images with my suitcase and item of head models，screaming chickens and bananas to ridicule this over-monitoring system.
Artist Bio
Born in 1996 in Chongqing, China.Tielin Ding is an an urban flaneur , observer and interdisciplinary artist based in NYC whose diverse practice involves working with playful objects, indeterminate traces and movements to create durational performative actions. His application of the methodology of “Mapping” and “Walking as Research Practice” gives him more opportunity to reflect on invisible systems within different sites and spaces.His works have been exhibited in Feldfuenf in Berlin,Germany；in Cologne colllabaration with Reclaim Award,Germany;Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle,USA; WigusGallery in Baltimore,USA；UCCA and ThreeShadows in Beijing,China； Polar Bear Gallery in Shanghai,China.
