"Drifting Memorial" is an interactive video installation based on an immersive fishing experience created locally by artist Yang Di, in which the audience can interact with the artwork through a virtual fishing game. What the audience catches in the game is not a "fish", but spliced video clips.
Artist Yang Di uses this project as a catalyst to re-engage with the camera, rekindling memories of bygone days while examining and contemplating contemporary life. The content of the images is set against the backdrop of millennium ruins, rediscovering the public spaces along various water bodies in Suzhou that carry rich collective memories and constantly change their functionality in the process of urban transformation. The resulting footage is both an echo of the past and a link to the present, reflecting on the impact of 30 years of rapid urban development on people, while redefining our understanding of "speed" and "identity".
