2092: Tale of Moon Trip is a collaboration between Kunlin He, Lemon Guo, and myself which combines a video installation by Kunlin alongside our original music and sound design, and is premiering in late 2021 at the Asian Art Biennial at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

As seen in the excerpt below, this is an interdisciplinary piece based around transformed moonscapes from Google Moon, developed and animated by Kunlin. These vivid animations are combined with a compelling narrative of an imagined future life on the moon in six chapters, with the stories examining emerging beliefs and religion, ecstatic visual experiences, entertainment, love, death, gender, environmental devastation, and the development of local artistic practices on the moon. Throughout, the stories rethink the problems faced by Chinese immigrants throughout history through the lens of the science fiction imaginary, raising essential questions about the role of modern art and culture in urgent geopolitical issues in China.

The 2021 Asian Art Biennial is hosted by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA), and titled Phantasmapolis. The theme of this year’s exhibition is Asian Futurism, and the Biennial re-evaluates Asia’s past and present by inviting thirty-eight artists/art groups from fifteen countries to re-examine topics about Asian cities, technologies, conflicts, gender and fantasies of the future, co-creating a Phantasmapolis of the future.

Artist/Director: HE Kunlin
Composition/Sound Design: Daniel Gouly & GUO Yingjia (Lemon)
Choreography: Cherie Carson
Dance: Helium Valentine & Kiran Haithcox
Translation: Ploi Pirapokin
Voiceover: Allyson Briggs
Producer/Director: David Creech
Producer/Camera: Eli Adler
Gaffer: Jason Gittons
Gaffer/Grip Truck: Andy Olson
DIT: Cody Flowers
Rigger: Matt Loenard