In this Land Water Research Group session, Hu Yue will present the work-in-progress of her ongoing PhD project titled ‘Humanscape’ in Geopoetics- Visual Diagnosis of Reclaimed Landscape. She uses a practice-based artistic research framework that employs diagnostic methods of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) – “Watching, Listening, Asking, and Feeling”- to represent artificially manufactured landscapes. By applying multi-sensory perspectives of “seeing”, a new terminology – ‘Humanscape’ – is created and represented through visual language and with her “earth writing” experiences inspired by geopoetics studies.

Through intervening in humanly regulated environments, her artworks focus on the boundary and dynamic balance between ‘Humanscape’ and the sea with drone imagery/collages, electron scanning, moving images, cyanotype prints, and sounds. The exploration is rooted in Hu Yue’s intimate and intuitive walking exploration in her home city- Tianjin, China.