Jennie Lau

Everyday Adversaria

"Everyday Adversaria" is an installation in an inner space – a corner of a room with one side of wall and another with window facing the street in downtown Toronto. The work is about the reflection of part of my everyday life through a collection of calendar dates and celebration in an expanded field with artistic form, colour, shape, light and music. My daily life now has new agenda and my own symbol – celebrating, dancing, tracing, cultivating, memorizing, etc., in a new space.

“I use cellphone and computer calendars as my daily planner for most of my routine activities. However, I also use daily tear-off wallpaper calendar to plan my household routines such as cooking meals, grocery shopping, cleaning, throwing garbage, important dates, follows-up, etc. The paper calendar is bi-lingual (Chinse and English), a combination of Western calendar and Chinese lunar calendar, which connect to my culture and identity – a Canadian citizen immigrated from Hong Kong embracing cultural diversity. To transform the collection of my paper calendar into an installation, I not only cut out the calendar dates of the paper calendar but also from large colour cardstock paper to create different scales and varieties. Projecting images and music credit to online sources and my "New Landscape" digital collage.Click on the Camera icons above for videos.”