School of Fine Art / MLitt Contemporary Art Practice / Xiye Lyu / Everything Is Still Running I

Everything Is Still Running I

Single-channel video installation, monitor, mirrored acrylic

Dimensions variable

The work presents a vortex made up of vast amounts of data, memes, image fragments, and digital residue. They continuously rotate, accumulate, collide, and recombine, resembling a system that has lost its original order but continues to operate.

Here, memes do not simply appear as visual symbols of internet culture. They are highly compressed forms of images that are endlessly copied and circulated. Through continuous transmission, they gradually become detached from their original sources and contexts, yet retain a strong recognisability and continue to enter new relationships and produce new meanings.

Everything Is Still Running I – Video Still
Everything Is Still Running I – Installation View