b.2008 , Works and studies between Shanghai and Northern China.
Engaged in performance, photography, moving image, painting, and text-based practice.
CV
Work
b.2008 , Works and studies between Shanghai and Northern China.
Engaged in performance, photography, moving image, painting, and text-based practice.
CV
Work
Created by Ronan Zhao, Shihao Hong
Public playback of fabricated surveillance footage.
Endless loop
January 2026, Beijing
Multi-channel video installation
This work presents a fabricated surveillance video publicly displayed across multiple screens in a shared urban space.
The footage is dated to the year 844 and depicts figures historically referred to as “Tang dynasty troublemakers”—marginalized youths—repeatedly moving through peripheral urban passages at night.
These figures originate from historical narratives where they are simplified, stigmatized, or rendered invisible.
By displacing surveillance imagery from its concealed institutional context into public visibility,
the work introduces a misalignment of viewing positions,exposing the structural entanglement of surveillance, historical imagination, and public order.
Materials & Format
AI-generated video, multiple public display monitors
Multi-channel, synchronized playback, endless loop
Photographs of the video projection
in different spatial contexts