展期 Duration｜2025.9.20(Sat.) - 2025.11.1(Sat)

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“When my home was demolished, I was in profound shock. I had always believed

that ‘home’ was a place of safety and stability—but it turned out to be fragile in the face of change. One day I stood on my balcony and suddenly understood that the entire city was an illusion—shifting, organic, and constantly in motion.”

These words come from artist Shu-Kai Lin, whose deeply personal experience has fueled adecade-long exploration of home, memory, and the instability of urban space. They also providethe foundation for his collaboration with Wayne Ashley, Founder and Executive Producer at FuturePerfect Studio, an interdisciplinary immersive media studio based in Brooklyn, New York.

Though they come from different cultural contexts, both Lin and Ashley are responding to the fragility of cities and the volatile conditions shaping the world today. In the midst of uncertainty, grief, and dislocation, their project offers a different kind of encounter—where art and technology combine to restore feeling, foster connection, and open space for imagining new futures.

When all that is familiar fades, when the fortress of safety is destroyed—what remains?
As a new world begins to take shape, what do you hope for? What do you imagine?
In a time of accelerated change, how do we respond, and how do we endure?
After destruction and loss, are we also given a chance to rebuild? To begin again?

City of Apparition is a mixed reality experience with VR headsets exploring the emotional and spatial dislocations caused by loss of home. Created by Brooklyn-based FuturePerfect Studio and Taiwanese artist Lin Shu-Kai, the work blends physical and digital worlds—allowing viewers to interact with fragments of a disappearing city, a childhood home, and the imagined structures that emerge in their place. The project draws on Lin’s personal experience of urban demolition in Tainan. When his family’s home was forcefully torn down, the rupture—both emotional and material—sparked a deep inquiry into the instability of cities and the volatile conditions shaping the world today. Based on Lin’s drawings, sculptures, and installations—Director Wayne Ashley, Founder of FuturePerfect, has interpreted this narrative through an immersive, multi-sensory journey using 3D scanning, game engines, and VR technology. At Der-Horng Gallery, audiences can preview a 7-minute prototype—an early glimpse of a work-in-progress that will continue evolving over the next year. Wearing a VR headset, viewers will interact with digital objects in physical space—a world where sculpture, architecture, voice, environmental sound, and spatial interactivity will converge. The demo introduces the concepts, invites public support, and builds anticipation for the full experience to come.

About FuturePerfect Studio

FuturePerfect is a Brooklyn-based research and interdisciplinary production studio that creates immersive experiences across XR, live performance, installation, and game platforms. Led by Founder & Executive Producer Wayne Ashley, the studio merges emerging technologies with narrative and design to support original works and collaborative partnerships. From 3D scanning to real-time game engines, FuturePerfect brings creative and technical expertise to projects presented at festivals, galleries, museums, and new media venues worldwide. FuturePerfect both develops its own original works and partners with artists, institutions, and companies as a creative and technical collaborator—offering production support, strategic consulting, and immersive media expertise.

Over the past 16 years Ashley and his collaborators have created numerous works in both digital and physical spaces. They have induced intense hallucinations in hundreds of audience members, invented new instruments for an underwater music concert, made theatrical interventions in public libraries, deployed databases and algorithms to generate new dramatic texts, developed a live animation system for a Shakespeare production, and produced VR works with acclaimed artists including William Kentridge and Will Ryman. Recently they published their first video game Void Climber available on Steam platform. Additionally, he has consulted with the Norwegian and Danish governments to develop long- term strategies for cultural exchange and new programs in art, performance, and technology.

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ARTIST

藝術家 Artist｜林書楷 Lin Shu-Kai

WORKS

陽台人寫真 - 20The Portraits of Balcony People – 20,2024,複合媒材於紙張,Mixed Media on Paper,H21.5 x W13.3cm

陽台人寫真 - 22 The Portraits of Balcony People – 22,2024,複合媒材於紙張,Mixed Media on Paper,H21.5 x W13.3cm

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