My Night, Your Radio
by Tongxin Guo
Research & project
Between the Ghost and the Ground: Reinterpreting Bodily Trauma and Reconstruction through an Imagined Land
Starting from my own autoimmune skin disorder, I try to find the root of body inflammation through an urban myth set in my lost hometown of Shijiazhuang, an industrialized city in northern China. Through embodied sensory experiences and emotionally-led documentation, I evade the dry, hot and suffocating environment to reimagine it using Hauntology and AI tools.
How do I reconnect with a place from the past that I can no longer recognise? What ghost haunts this place and speaks to me on an ongoing basis? How does my body and the body of this city morph and stretch, causing both destruction and rehabilitation? And what are the boundaries between us?
By unraveling my bodily trauma I land on a new surface, constructing a new layer of images of the city that draws closer to an imagined hometown. I seek to create another possible home; a realm where me and my body – and other bodies – can rest.
Tongxin Guo
Guo Tongxin (郭 童心) is an independent filmmaker, electronic sound artist and multimedia artist. She is currently based in Amsterdam.
Her current research traces back to her personal experience of marginalized people in childhood through embodied immune disorders and an ancient Chinese ghost story. Constructing a thread between myth and the modern city with the use of cinema narration and other forms of art, including music, painting materials, 3D modelling, sculptures, AI tools and poetry writing.