7 episodic videos, 2021.
Originally shown at Artists Space March 14 - 20, 2021 as a durational, episodic livestreamed landscape film in the solo exhibition "Slippery When Wet."
Exhibited at Seoul Museum of Art in 2022.
A weeklong, episodic live-streamed landscape film that attempts to reimagine the genre of a road movie in Hong Kong. Each short film begins exactly at the moment of the official sunrise in Hong Kong. Inspired by a series of personal correspondence from 2016 and a lecture by Hong Kong film critic and programmer Clarence Tsui at Hong Kong Baptist University, the work takes up the provocation that a road movie is impossible in Hong Kong. Tsui's lecture on the sociopolitical circumstances upon filmmaking began with a challenge that a "road movie," an American cinema trope, is not translatable to Hong Kong. Each hike begins at various points across the island. Each walk affords a new view, and some repeating views, observing the regularity and repetition of sea traffic, birdsong on the island, and whirring of the wind turbine and power station. There is a voice behind the camera as it broadcasts, breathing.
Originally presented at Artists Space, New York. Shown at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany and Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea in 2022 as a simultaneous 7-channel installation.
Acha, Gabriela. "'Closer' Asks Whether True Privacy is Still Possible." Frieze, May 9, 2022.
Fajemisin, Olamiju. "'Closer' at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen" by Olamiju Fajemisin. Artforum, Critics' Picks, May 2022.
Damman, Catherine. "Lust, Caution: Catherine Damman on Tiffany Sia’s “Slippery When Wet.” Artforum, Summer Issue 2021. In print and online.
Yim, Polly. "Breathing in The Invisible: Polly Yim on Tiffany Sia at Artists Space, New York.” Texte zur Kunst, April 9, 2021.
Bovino, Emily Verla, "Slippery When Wet: Tiffany Sia's Poetry of Lived Time." Ocula, February 24, 2021.
Ling, Isabel. “Wielding Time and Text, Tiffany Sia Documents Hong Kong’s Resistance” by Isabel Ling. Hyperallergic, April 13, 2021.