xinwaiting app for iPhone and iPad

"x-in-waiting" is an app-as-art archive of an ongoing performance to camera series created from 2020 - to present day. "x-in-waiting" refers to the period of stasis that occurs for something to become something else. Here the “x” is the variable and stands in for whatever occupation the artist is consumed with while in waiting. This also extends to the “x” of uncertainty pertaining to where we will find ourselves/society and daily living at the end of this moment in time. The work asks viewers to wait with the artist for eight minutes while he symbolically engages in an occupation that takes up his time.

Download the app and experience waiting with the artist while he is performing waiting. This app will self-destruct when the waiting is over.

Artist: David Yu
Developer: Tory Shoreman

This work is exhibiting alongside the London Ontario Media Arts Association exhibition Virtual Encounters: New Entanglements in Performance and Media
Co-Presented by The Art Gallery of Peterborough

Special thanks to:
Canada Arts Council
Ontario Arts Council