Selected Moving Image Artworks
Below is a series of selected moving image artworks by Man&Wah. Created for various past projects these artworks is intended to be viewed in large format from 2K to 4K resolution with stereo to surround sound for an immersive experience. Due to limited uploading capacity for file size on the website the video resolution is reduce to 1K.
East & West | The Supreme Cosmic Treasures Of The 5 Elements, 2025
Duration: 33min & 33secs
single-channel HD 4K video, stereo sound, projection size: 7m width x 4m height
Central to Man&Wah’s newly commissioned large format moving image artwork East & West | The Supreme Cosmic Treasures Of The 5 Elements is the symbology and idea of the mandala. Traditionally found in Hindu and Buddhist Tantrism, the mandala is a representation of cosmic processes of corporeal disintegration and reintegration into the ancient swirling energies of the universe. The work finds Man&Wah in visual meditation, inspired by the five elements of fire, water, earth, air and æther/akash.
The video work depicts the artist's signature macroscopic photography that morphs into geometric patterning, creating bespoke mandala forms pertaining to the artists’ personal journeys of cosmic thoughts and wonderings. Man&Wah interlace symbols and natural elements representing their hybridity of existing between two distinct realities of Eastern and Western, with the notion of Australia and Hong Kong represented in their botanical portrait photography, panoramic landscapes, deity visuals, and cosmic geometries.
Soundtracking the visual work of Man&Wah is a sequence of recordings by American cosmic composer Jonn Serrie. Since the 1980s, Serrie has pioneered fields of intergalactic ambient music, imbuing electronic soundscapes with concepts of spirituality and humanism.
Text by Con Gerakaris at 4A
Music by Jonn Serrie
Gifts Of The Blue Pearl Vol.2, 2025
Duration: 25mins
HD 4K video, 5.1 surround sound, planetarium dome projection
Screened at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium for the BrisAsia Festival, Man&Wah was invite and commissioned to create new visual works for the planetarium dome as a part of the festivals special events. The result is an immersive kaleidoscopic video artwork which induces the audience into a meditative state inviting wonder, reflection and contemplation of our place in the cosmos. At the end of each screening, Man&Wah engaged with the audience in an open Q&A, guided by a curated sequence of 95 visual slides spanning over a decade of their work. The discussion explored themes of imagination, creativity, travel, storytelling, and both past and ongoing projects.
Music by Jonn Serrie
Celeston 3, 2023
Duration: 30mins
single-channel HD 4K video, stereo sound, projection size: 8m width x 3.5m height
Commission by MoB (Museum of Brisbane) for Rearranged | Art Of The Flower group show featuring over 15 botanical artist. Celeston 3 is a new large format artworks which spans 8 metres wall-to-wall/floor-to-ceiling within a black room, accompanied by custom-built bench seating and subtle neon lighting details integrated throughout the entrance and space. To enhance the Celeston 3 experience Man&Wah collaborated with cosmic composer Jonn Serrie, whose ambient soundscape subtly fills the refined minimalist gallery environment.
Quantum Metamorphosis SLQ, 2021
Duration: 30mins
3-channel HD 2K video, 5.1 surround sound, projection size: 8m width x 3.5m height
Man&Wah was invited by SLQ Gallery (State Library Queensland) to create transformative works for the Entwined - Plants & People exhibition. One of the works they created is Quantum Metamorphosis, a large scale 3 channel moving image artwork projected onto a purpose built screen which wraps around the viewer as they watch the video artwork. The works is an immersive visual exploration of human, consciousness, place/environment informed by the process of earth’s five elements and a celebration of the deep beauty within nature.
Music by Jonn Serrie
DIGITAL GARDEN, 2018
Duration: 12–15mins
4-channel HD 2–4K video, 5.1 surround sound, video size: varies
The CUBE in QUT is one of the world’s largest interactive learning and display spaces in the southern hemisphere consisting of 48 multi-touch HD screens and multiple large scale digital projection screens spanning across two storeys. Man&Wah created DIGITAL GARDEN and was the first artist to use the entirety of the CUBE's screens for a project. The content for DIGITAL GARDEN combines audio/visual blending art and science, collaborating with QUT's technical and science faculties to transform the space into an unique and captivating environment to arouse curiosity through the beauty of plants.
(Top video) Timelapse of DIGITAL GARDEN exhibition opening night featuring the main screen of The CUBE. There was also a guided meditation in front of the artwork. (Above left video) 4 of the 48 multi-touch HD screens where viewers can interactive and flip through the flowers exploring macro to micro visuals and interesting information about each flowers. (Above right video) A video clip which flips though the colourful florals featured in the DIGITAL GARDEN project.
Music by Jonn Serrie
BOTANICAL CUBE, 2018
Duration: 12mins
4-channel HD 2K video, projection size 3m width x 3m height
BOTANICAL CUBE is an installation for BOTANICA|Contemporary Art Outside, an annual outdoor art exhibition at the Brisbane City Botanic Gardens and a part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games City Festival Event.
The BOTANICAL CUBE is inspired by what astronauts call the 'overview effect' or 'the orbital perspective', where their awareness of earth shifts from the vantage of space. Experiencing a global awareness as they witness this 'pale blue dot' floating in a black void, that we are all interconnected on earth, our only known home in space.
This site specific installation brings together a collection of common plants growing within Brisbane and Queensland that could easily be overlooked. The cube’s monolithic structure and morphing cosmic botanical visuals, paired with the garden's serene surroundings; provided a ‘space’ for people to slow down and pause, to deeper contemplate and reflect on their relationship with nature and appreciate the role it plays in sustaining a liveable planet, arousing thoughts between the everyday and the greater cosmic mysteries of existence.
(Above video) A promotion timelapse showing the BOTANICAL CUBE within the Botanical Garden space.
Botanical Cosmos Bengaluru, 2017
Duration: 12mins
single-channel HD 2K video, stereo sound, projection size: 4m width x 2.5m height
Man&Wah spent 2 months in Bengaluru, India researching into the city's rich culture, botanical and natural history that is disappearing through economic development and progress. Towards the end of their artist residency they presented and exhibited a body of works in print format, installation and a video artwork titled Botanical Cosmos Bengaluru. The video artwork is a visual narration inspired by Bengaluru rapid transformation into modernisation with technology, its rich natural history, deep mystical culture, chaos/ease, life/rebirth, physical/non-physical, destruction/transformation, modernisation overlaying and merging with the ancient.
Music by Man&Wah
Botanical Cosmos Mackay, 2018
Duration: 15mins
single-channel HD 2K video, stereo sound, projection size: 4m width x 2.8m height
For Man&Wah’s solo show at Art Space Mackay they collaborate with the Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens where they presented photographic works, text base stories accompanied with photographic portraits of locals living in Mackay and a large format mediative moving image artwork inspired by the floral’s stunning beauty and extraterrestrial qualities found within the botanical gardens.
Music by Man&Wah
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