Ventriloquists-Introduction

(On Show) 2008 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2008

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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.

she is my aunt

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She is my aunt
video installation
07'07"
2008

I have entered She is my aunt with an invisible body. The main protagonist (the Aunt) has thus comes alive from mymy staccato words; I have thus become t narration and he medium of the medium (the video). The camera enwraps the event like tentacles entwining on its prey, parasitizing with the news media. The camera captures all people inside the frame and turns them into characters. These characters, post-produced sound effects, and the Aunt (a conscious naming of the main protagonist) have morphed this video clip into a new event, turning away from the so-called reality. This process also displays how mediated information will alienate us from the real object and bond us with the virtual media images—the media is the truth maker, and the virtual image is truer than the true self.