Find Hu Di
Find Hu Di is a durational performance art piece in which the artist, Hu Di, continuously and publicly shared her location online and offline over the course of 100 days. This piece explores security, social support relationships, technology, and personal privacy.
Medium:
Social intervention; public GPS tracking, QR codes, real-time performance, online mapping, long-term behavioral project
Find Hu Di was a public disappearance, disguised as a map.
For 100 days, the artist became traceable on a live digital map—her location marked by a floating blue dot, visible to anyone who scanned the QR code. No performance. No context. No reward. Just her, somewhere in Los Angeles, walking, resting, or sitting still. An NPC in the real world, scripted only by the desire to be found.
The project emerged from burnout—a collapse of the will to perform. It began with a question: If I stop trying to be seen, will anyone still want to see me? What followed was an experiment in radical visibility, digital transparency, and emotional exposure. People came looking. Some found her. Most didn’t. But the possibility remained: a dot on a map, pulsing with intention.
In this soft dérive, the artist became infrastructure—a signal without content, a body without promise. She was hyper-visible and emotionally unguarded, but not available in the ways the system expects. This was not a spectacle. It was an invitation, and also a refusal.
In its final gesture, the project folded into Echo Chamber Realms, where the blue dot—the symbol of trackability—was placed beneath the feet of puppets who talk without listening. The search became metaphor. The map turned inward. The artist disappeared into her own field.
Find Hu Di, 2024, LA
Find Hu Di, 2024, LA
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