This multi-media installation explores tele-transportation, social organization, public and private interaction and the desire to find secure ways to connect globally while maintaining distinct regional and cultural identities. Inspired by a 30 year-old engineering scheme – the Bering Straight bridge proposal to join Alaska and Siberia – the freeLinK project will be a simulated environment exploring how voyagers might travel from continent to continent via one single land and bridge based highway. The artist proposes to create shallow relief and wall drawings of cities, mountains and bridges. Within this band of representations, video monitors will be placed that provide real time webcam images of live traffic conditions from various cities, accompanied by sound collected from the actual sites. As in other works by Cheung, freeLinK explores the phenomenon of travel, inviting visitors into a sensory and experiential journey. The work reflects current socio-political consciousness while foreshadowing a Utopian future – aspirations of freedom, equality, security, mobility and speed.

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