(On Show) 2008 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008Untitled from yuchengta on Vimeo.
Ventriloquists-Introduction, 2008 from yuchengta on Vimeo.
Ventriloquists-Introduction
Video Installation
dimensions variable
2008
Ventriloquists-Introduction is a series of work shot in the streets of Taipei. I hid behind the foreigners living in Taipei and directed them to look at the camera and repeat what I had said. What I had said… It was actually an imitation of tones, and these tones were put together as a forged self-introduction in Chinese. Because my foreigners are not familiar with Chinese, they were trying to imitate, just like an instrument. The instruments play out a language that is not really a language, and thus creates laughing points. I (the man in black behind them) am like the drifting power, which comes in and out of their body, resulting in the state of virtual identity and drifting subjectivity.
