Selected Works
Held in Light
Held in Light is a video poem about opening up to the emotions of sadness, fear, and depletion. It offers a momentary glimpse into the delicate dance of letting go and the courage to acknowledge the invisible tendrils that hold society, both for good and for bad.
You Break, You Open
Fortune House
Greenware cookies, paint, paper, 2022.
Fortune House: You Break, You Open, are fortune cookies that challenge how people engage with art. These clay cookies also explore the idea of what is Chinese and how something becomes a cultural icon.
Hwei Ki Gong
(American Ignorant - lost translation)
Video art, audio, joss paper, red thread and incense, prints on paper with gold foil on fruit cans, 2019-2022.
Stumbling through the repetitious acts of Chinese cultural rules and rituals – Erin honours their family. Half-Chinese and affectionately called Hwei Ki Gong by their grandmother, they (mis)interpret these rules through installation and performance art.
Through multiplicity, Erin looks at how culture is reproduction and intent: reproducing what is learned from the past, and adapting to modern lifestyle and technology. For example, 6 round fresh fruit are a traditional offering for those who have passed. Today, substituting with canned fruit is equally meaningful as long as the intention is to honour. While the rituals may not be perfectly enacted, culture ultimately evolves with modern times in surprising ways.
Récits I-III
video poems by Charles Hegsted and Erin Corbett, 2021
Water Rushing In
Music Video for Rob Dickson, live video by Selene Vakharia and Erin Corbett, 2018
Incidental Musics Live Video Performance
Digital and analogue video projection with Selene Vakharia, 2018