Practice(WIP)

This project is a moving image work that examines the relationship between identity and systems of control within the context of competitive sport. The work takes place on a tennis court, where the entire surface is covered with hundreds of custom carpets printed with images of identification documents such as passports, visas, and immigration forms. A performer plays tennis on top of this surface, bringing their body into direct contact and tension with these symbols of bureaucratic identity.

The work also reflects on the historical role of tennis as an imperial sport. During British colonial expansion, tennis was introduced to regions such as Hong Kong, India, and East Africa, functioning as a tool for maintaining social hierarchy and behavioural discipline among the colonial elite. While the sport’s rituals, dress codes, and rule systems project a sense of neutrality and order, they have historically upheld exclusionary structures of race, class, and gender.
This work is not aiming to ‘represent’ any single identity, but to challenge the structures that define and confine all identities—gendered, racialised, nationalised—within sport.
该项目是一件影像作品，在竞技体育的语境中审视身份与控制系统之间的关系。作品发生于一座网球场，整个场地被数百块定制地毯覆盖，地毯上印有护照、签证、移民表格等身份证明文件的图像。一名表演者在其上进行网球运动，使身体与这些官僚身份符号产生直接接触与张力。
作品同时回应网球作为一种帝国体育项目的历史角色。在英国殖民扩张时期，网球被引入香港、印度、东非等地区，作为维持殖民精英社会等级与行为规范的工具。其礼仪、着装规定与规则体系呈现出秩序与中立的表象，却在历史上持续巩固着种族、阶级与性别的排他结构。
该作品并非旨在“再现”某一种具体身份，而是对界定并限制各种身份——性别化、种族化、国族化——的体育制度结构提出质询。