EDWIN LO (DECEMBER 5–18 2025)
Accidents
digital video (1920 x 1080), color, sound, 17’, 2025, Hong Kong
created by Edwin Lo
December 5–18 2025
Introduced by Matteo Bittanti
Set inside the simulated Hong Kong of Sleeping Dogs (2012), Accidents is an observational machinima about a city that keeps running through failure. Lo dispenses with music and narration, using only in-game ambience (traffic, rain, neon signage) to expose how harm and indifference are built into the system itself. A pedestrian lies in the road while cars circle; paramedics loop and drift away. A woman is repeatedly struck as bystanders assemble and disperse. Under monsoon rain, bodies pile up; a van crashes into a bus; shoppers step over wreckage without pause. Lo’s fixed camera and long takes transform glitches into analysis: the engine privileges flow over care, image over response. Without overt commentary, Accidents mirrors real urban paralysis, institutions visible yet inert, citizens numbed into spectatorship. The work ends as it begins: traffic normalises, bodies remain.
Born in 1984, Hong Kong–based artist and researcher Edwin Lo works with sound, video, and game environments to explore the relations between technology, faith, and memory. Under the alias Auditory Scenes, he creates experimental machinima and video essays that turn video games into spaces for philosophical and aesthetic inquiry. His works, including Those Who Do Not Remember the Past Are Condemned to Repeat It (2020), Crucifixion and Epiphany (2020), and End Time and The Trajectories of Ancestors (2022), appropriate game engines such as Outlast 2 and Far Cry 5 to examine religion, violence, and collective history. Influenced by Gilbert Simondon and Yuk Hui, Lo approaches digital media as living systems rather than static texts. A graduate of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, Lo has exhibited internationally, with recent presentations at Palais de Tokyo, Para Site, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong, Tokyo Arts and Space, Image Forum, and the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. He lives and works in Hong Kong.