If the light at the end of the tunnel flickers... (2024)

Super 8 Projector, Overhead Projector, Acetate sheets, Cellophane, Acrylic Paint, Found Materials.

Commissioned by Brandx, Sydney Australia

An experimentation of shadow puppetry, expanded cinema, and analog animation exploring tunnel vision, perseverance through diminishing hope and creating magic in the darkness.

A window installation in one of the busiest streets in Sydney City, invites passersby to stop and take a look through some peep holes.

A mechanized toy car moves along a 4m long roll of film, looping it through an overhead projector creating an analog film-like experience. A modified super 8 projector, creates a ‘flickering’ effect on the image.

Lead Artist: Leo Tsao

Project Assistance: Imogen Yang

Additional Assistance: Jesse Samuel, Rebecca Tsao

Documentation by: Aditya Raina, Rebecca Tsao, Imogen Yang

If the light at the end of the tunnel flickers... (2024)

Super 8 Projector, Overhead Projector, Acetate sheets, Cellophane, Acrylic Paint, Found Materials.

Commissioned by Brandx, Sydney Australia

An experimentation of shadow puppetry, expanded cinema, and analog animation exploring tunnel vision, perseverance through diminishing hope and creating magic in the darkness.

A window installation in one of the busiest streets in Sydney City, invites passersby to stop and take a look through some peep holes.

A mechanized toy car moves along a 4m long roll of film, looping it through an overhead projector creating an analog film-like experience. A modified super 8 projector, creates a ‘flickering’ effect on the image.

Lead Artist: Leo Tsao

Project Assistance: Imogen Yang

Additional Assistance: Jesse Samuel, Rebecca Tsao

Documentation by: Aditya Raina, Rebecca Tsao, Imogen Yang

Leo Tsao (he/him) is a Taiwanese Australian artist working predominantly with film and movement. Through practice as research methodology, his work is experimental and open ended. He often brings together disparate and unlikely disciplines and collaborators through formal explorations to rupture expectations, heteronormativity, cisgenderism and whiteness to create new modes of perception and possibilities.

His art practice often crosses over with his work in facilitation and advocacy as director of Camp Skateboarding and his work in Trans Health.

He has been awarded the 2019 Inner West Art and Culture grant, first prize for the International Competition for Intermedia Artwork in Kraków, Poland and exhibited in Carriageworks, FirstDraft, PACT, Dance House and more.

Leo Tsao (he/him) is a Taiwanese Australian artist working predominantly with film and movement. Through practice as research methodology, his work is experimental and open ended. He often brings together disparate and unlikely disciplines and collaborators through formal explorations to rupture expectations, heteronormativity, cisgenderism and whiteness to create new modes of perception and possibilities.

His art practice often crosses over with his work in facilitation and advocacy as director of Camp Skateboarding and his work in Trans Health.

He has been awarded the 2019 Inner West Art and Culture grant, first prize for the International Competition for Intermedia Artwork in Kraków, Poland and exhibited in Carriageworks, FirstDraft, PACT, Dance House and more.

2024

¤ If the light at the end of the tunnel flickers...

¤ Untethering

2021

¤Strategic Choreographies

¤ Queer Skate Research Lab II: Workshops

2019

¤ Camp Skateboarding

¤ don't call it a lover's quarrel

2018

¤ Four Walls

COLLABORATIONS

¤ Animate Loading: Art Gallery of New South Wales - Sydney Modern

¤ Animate Loading: Pari Gallery

¤ Offerings: Gesture Share