The 6th VH AWARD: Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, 40 Epochs
The 6th VH AWARD: Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, 40 Epochs
The 6th VH AWARD: Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, 40 Epochs
The 6th VH AWARD: Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, 40 Epochs
About the Video
Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit (founded in 2021, New York) examine sound, time, and narrative as material and metaphor for their simulated present. By interweaving traditional and speculative philosophies, histories, and practices, they compose multimodal performances and installations that question the temporality and dominant narratives of contemporary technological advancements. Yán wéi xīn shēng 言为心声 is a Chinese idiom meaning ‘words are the voice of the heart.’ But where does the heart go when that voice is displaced from a body? Based on the artists’ own journey building and training an AI voice model, 40 Epochs explores the heart of identity, spiritual displacement, and the labor behind voices that engender human-like technologies. As artists of the Asian diaspora, enmeshed within is also the ambivalence that we reckon with as we confront this emerging form of self-reproduction.
Still Image: Tianyi Sun & Fiel Guhit, 40 Epochs (2025)
About the Program
The VH AWARD supports emerging media artists who engage with the context of Asia through an online residency program and exhibitions of commissioned artworks across various global platforms. Initiated in 2016, the VH AWARD has been discovering and cultivating promising artists to share their artistic experiments and amplify their voices on diverse issues. The award encourages artists who push the boundaries of audiovisual artworks to reflect on how we understand ourselves and one another in relation to the past, present and future. To amplify and share their voices with broader communities, the artworks commissioned by the VH AWARD have been exhibited in partnership with various art institutions and platforms, including the Vision Hall of Hyundai Motor Group in Yongin, South Korea; the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara in Jakarta, Indonesia; the National Arts Council in Singapore; the House of Electronic Arts in Basel, Switzerland; and the Elektra Virtual Museum.