Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flower
And attractive shining supreme golden houses
Have no inherently existent maker at all.
They are set up through the power of thought.
Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

-Buddha *[1 ]
 
Under Taoist and Buddhism influences, I am sensitive to the deceptive illusion of sensory experiences. Layman’s says ‘Life is a drama, drama is Life’. Neglecting the influences of multimedia, everything is a deceptive of our own desire already. “Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired that we love” Nietzsche said. This is another way to describe the deceptive illusion of the senses.  This is my virtual feeling of reality.[2]

In daily life, we contact multimedia. The world of virtual reality - intense like breathing.  In Susan Sontag’s words, capitalism is built on the of image culture, and image culture is building of photography with twin-power to make us see the reality as simultaneously ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’. This twin-power perfectly serves our different desires to ‘stimulate consuming’. 

Susan Sontag said again, ‘Since we knew how to use the camera to ‘freeze’ the moment, we became more sensitive about the melancholy of the external changes in our life and our surroundings.‘* [3]   It was a process of  the exploration about this sensitive melancholy within three virtual reality performances “Virtual Libido”, “ Moth-er” and “ Would you like to go to bed with me?”. Ambiguity and insecurity of sensuality in different dimensions of time and space provided by multimedia and  the virtual reality thereof, are the aesthetic qualities of these three pieces.

Vik wrote, March 2008

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1. How to see yourself as you really are, His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama; Translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.
Atria Books, 2006

2. Friedrich Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche ; A new translation by Marion Faber
Oxford World’s classic, 1998

3. On Photography
Susan Sontag;
Chinese language edition arranged with Aitken & Stone Limited
through Big Apple; Tuttle-Mori Agency, Inc. Tonsan Publication, Inc., 1997