[Enter The Void] is Ding Shiwei’s latest project at Imagokinetics lab. Its Chinese title [随机预言] ①invokes the concept of cryptology, which is a function mapping each possible query to a (fixed) random response from its output domain. The English title [Enter The Void] ② is inspired by the same titled movie by Argentinean director Gaspar Noé.

From 2019, the artist has been working on a method he calls “random flow”, to flow swiftly with a multivocal symbol, an invisible square, an ambiguous smile, an esthetic distance, an over threshold dialogue, a vanishing prophecy, a pair of gazing eyes, a substantial abyss to enter a prophecy machine called “Void” eventually. The output works contrast the world after 2020 with different distances and extend and compose the exhibition of same title at Imagokinetics lab in November, 2020.

The exhibition consists of 4 parts: 「The Jokers’ Revolution」,「Aesthetic Distance」,「The Vanishing Prophecy」,「The Abyss Watchers」. The narration of the four parts exists independently and correlates at the same time and the 15 unpublished video and installation artworks present Ding’s work between 2019 and 2020.

①Wikipedia：In cryptography, a random oracle is an oracle (a theoretical black box) that responds to every unique query with a (truly) random response chosen uniformly from its output domain. If a query is repeated, it responds the same way every time that query is submitted.
Stated differently, a random oracle is a mathematical function chosen uniformly at random, that is, a function mapping each possible query to a (fixed) random response from its output domain.

②Baidu Baike：“Enter The Void” is the experimental film directed by Gaspar Noé and casted by Paz de la Huerta and Olly Alexander, premiered in France on May 5, 2010. The film is about the spirit absent experiences of a vulgar drug dealer after his death and his long and fantastical journey. The film was nominated by 62nd palmed ‘or at Cannes Film Festival in 2009.