Artmaking for me is the process by which the phantom returns. (a) All those texts, theories, concepts, issues, encountered events and people that have once appeared (or even those that have never really occurred) become phantoms that keep returning. Being haunted as I am, all I can do is place them into my works. For “Video Manifesto 2,” I submitted the work, A few more vomiting will make us get used to it, an attempt to tackle the issue of identity in which I have been entangled for years. From documenting behaviour to narrative and then discourse, the basis of the work is the hybridisation of personal identity and the construction of local culture. It blends together elements from different genres such as documentary, autobiography and fiction, in order to configure a multi-layered narrative structure that mixes reality and fiction.

創作於我是一個鬼魂迴返的過程，那些會出現的(甚或未會真實發生的)各類文本、理論、概念、議題、經歷過的事或人，化為幽靈不斷迴返，因此被縈繞的我只能將其放入作品之中。而是次我向《錄像宣言》提交的作品<嘔多幾下可能會慣>,則是處理纏繞多年的身份認同議題，從行為紀錄開始，到敍事，再到論述，以個人身分認同與地方文化建立的混雜性為基礎，混合了紀實、自傳、虛構等不同類型元素的方式，以組成一個虛實交錯的多重敍事結構。

Tianyi Zheng, Tin-e (1995, Hubei) is an artist based in Hong Kong and the Netherlands, whose current interests include the interface and narration between space, place, the identity of people, as well as heterotopology and hauntology. Displayed in mixed media installations, her work comprised of found objects, video, sound, and performance. She graduated from Frank Mohr Institute (MFA in MADTech) in 2021 and received a BA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2018).
Zheng’s work has been shown in Prenzlauer Studio, Berlin (2021); Kunstpunt, Groningen (2021); Artist Residency in Bierumerschool, Bierum (2020); PMQ, Hong Kong (2018) and Kunstraum Gallery of ZHdK, Zurich (2017). Zheng was awarded the Lucht Stipend (2021) and supported by Corona Bridging Grant for Artists, Curators, Researchers, Mondriaan Fond (2021). She has curated cultural events such as the Wild Art Festival in Green Wave Art Hong Kong.