As time and iteration move forward and intertwine, we become nostalgic. While the idea of “post-human” or “cyborg” gives people the impression of how one pictures and experiences the future, Hou Lam Tsui looks back to the millennium that once embodied how we as well as the culture imagined the new era and technology in both utopian and dystopian ways. Tsui is interested in the future-fantasy, and the discrepancy between reality and fantasy towards the future.

In a time where digital conversions took place, physicality was deserted while digitalisation was still far from perfect, what is lost but unable to be dug out? The diary-like video essay crystallises a thinking process with no final conclusion of what histories are and can be, questioning the temporal uniqueness of futurity. It reveals the stickiness of the past that holds imaginations towards the future through slippery memories shaped by media and irrelevant peripheral moments.

Sticky Sweet Iteration was first exhibited in Post-Human Narratives: The Coexisting Land.

時間和迭代緩緩地前進，層積起時空上的覆疊糾纏，我們卻總在懷念過去。當「後人類」或「賽伯格」象徵著 人們如何想像和經歷未來，徐皓霖則回頭細看千禧年代——大眾與文化如何以烏托邦與惡托邦的兩極方式構想 所謂的新世代及科技。她對未來的想像，以及現實與幻想的落差均深感興趣。

我們曾經摒棄實體，數碼轉化接連進行，而數碼化卻不盡完美——當中有什麼失去的我們再也無法能夠挖掘、 尋覓?日記般的錄像文章記錄著思索的軌跡，卻沒有意圖要定義小寫歷史及其可能性，反而是叩問「未來性」 於時空上的獨特與重複。熒幕展現了過去的黏膩感，黏附了種種對未來的滑溜想象和回憶，並由媒體和不著邊 際的小片段形塑而成。

《甜膩的迭代》最先展出於《後人類敘事——共存之地》。