The piece focused on the act of achieving self-occupation through Sisyphean, mundane and repetitive activities through the eyes and movements of seven members of a single household - the artist’s own.
“The Hidden Dimension II” was one of Sarah Choo’s earlier reflections on urban solitude and the alienation of people even within setting of a home or a family. The piece focused on the act of achieving self-occupation through Sisyphean, mundane and repetitive activities through the eyes and movements of seven members of a single household - the artist’s own. We designed the physical box packaging of “The Hidden Dimension II” to express the looping video’s minimal moving elements in print form. We carefully etched keyframes of the artist’s videos and printed them in separate layers so that the featured characters “move” as the peruser removes or replaces each “frame” and form a new narrative each time. The sides of the box and the disk-case was covered with black vinyl stickers with cut-out texts that are revealed only as they are removed, as a graphic interpretation of the artwork’s title.