Collaborative work with Nicole Condon-Shih 

The interactive installation, Paid Vacation, is an invitation and contract to a hardworking Beijinger to take two weeks off from their grueling day job and lend their pedicab to the art world. While on vacation, the vehicle will be transformed into a movable camera obscura, inviting the community to enter the art piece and to witness contemporary fleeting moments in time. This camera obscura, or “treasure house,” as Mozi, the Han Chinese philosopher termed it, examines this early Chinese discovery, while allowing us to experience the current rate of exponential change and contemplating the future. The interactive installation flips reality upside down and offers an alternative perspective of the city of Beijing. The project aims to both interact with the local community and also give back to this hardworking citizen.