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90s Kids (@ Museo Casorella)

Installation, 2 channel video, tv monitors, dj controller, string, metal supports and found objects. compressed_90sKids_Locarno-145

90s Kids is a memorial to a specific cultural moment (the Chinese Y2K era) and a meditation on how we access and reconstruct the past. By mixing together Chinese pop music, Western contemporary sounds, and personal text, the work creates a third space that reflects the experience of a generation shaped by global cultural flows.

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This dialogue between Eastern and Western media landscapes is highly relevant to the Ticino art scene, a context itself defined by a unique cultural and linguistic intersection.

90’s Kids contributes to this dialogue by presenting a personal, yet universally resonant, perspective on how memories are not fixed archives but are continuously mixed, remixed, and re-interpreted, well, much like a DJ set.

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#Audiovisual Essay #Chinese Pop Culture #Chinese Y2K #Contemporary Art #Cultural Hybridity #Cultural Memory #DJ Essay #Diaspora #East-West Dialogue #Emotional Archive #Generational Memory #Globalization #Hybrid Identity #Internet Culture #Media Archaeology #Media Landscapes #Memory #Nostalgia #Personal Archive #Postmemory #Reconstruction of Memory #Remix Culture #Sonic Collage #Sound Art #Thirdspace #Transcultural Experience #Video Art