Structure Study IV is a musical performance where two flutists translate, practice, and perform a musical piece composed of dead nocturnal flying insects from both Hsin Chu and New York. I captured these insects by first applying adhesives to blank musical sheets, then using artificial lights at night to attract flying insects that were attracted to lights to be randomly stuck onto the sheets.

Ni Hao is an artist currently living and working in Hsinchu City, Taiwan, as well as Brooklyn, New York. Ni’s interdisciplinary art practice often combines sculpture, installation, video and sound performances. Ni draws inspiration from a wide range of subjects as diverse as geopolitics, dromology, international ghost stories and love stories. Ni Hao received his BFA in 2011 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Ni’s work has been exhibited at venues such as the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, Queens Museum in New York, Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, California, Asia Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, as well as Gallery Vacancy in Shanghai, China.