With no names
stainless steel, wooden seat, cement, toilet cleaner, resin soil, book printing paper; motor, water pipe
dimensions variable
2020
The series "With no names" consists of three works: "Drinking Fountain", "Roaring Newspaper," and "Objects."
The motivation came from a trip to Hong Kong and Macau before the anti-transmission regulations outbreak. After returning to Taiwan, it was too late to recollect everything during the journey. As soon as the screen turn, it became appearance of smog, fire, and gunfire on TV. . In the six months since the incident, the presidential election is gradually approaching. It is a feeling that both places are experiencing generations, standpoints, and value struggles. The resistance grew from small to large. On the first day of the anti-transmission parade, we hung a slogan supporting Hong Kong on the balcony facing the rental house's street corner. The houses in the downtown area naturally attracted a certain degree of attention. However, before the short story of struggling finished, the cohabitant itself was persuaded to retreat and put down. We replaced them with a campaign advertisement for a certain mayor.The rented apartment's balcony was occupied by a flag, which made us feel embarrassed, angry, and uneasy. Only realize that it was only a place that belonged "temporarily". The residents came and went, always being sent by others.
After half a year of precipitation, start creating the first work in this series, Drinking Station, which uses the image of a public space object to describe the chemical blue water that washes on the streets and people. "Blue" disassembles the power of the group into objects waiting to be identified and captured. Tring to get close to a fact that was already out of control by a disabling overflow drinking fountain. Feeling slow in these fast facts, and the reality is always sharp and rapid. Water is an essential component in a person's body. As our lives, emotions, sorrows, sorrows, and joys are discharged and discharged, it is healing and flowing, but it is violent, latent, and omnipresent in this scene. It also implies that what we think of as the boundary between the public and private spheres is blurred and easily moved.
Therefore, putting work, "Roaring Newspaper," in propaganda outside the exhibition hall for the audience to request freely. The content is composed of four independent diaries "The Balcony", "Travel to Hong Kong and Macau", "Birds Without Names, Squirrels and Police Dogs," and "Death". The content includes everything that we experienced in 2019 before the outbreak of the epidemic. For the first time in March, I set foot on Hong Kong's land, moved into a rental house in Tainan's downtown area in May, and started the strike in Hong Kong during the return in June. Furthermore, comparing the story above with Hong Kong and Taiwan's development during this period. Written into some short essays, stated the political atmosphere and feelings that we experienced in particular specific time and space between the lines.Name it "Roar" because I designed the propaganda product to be the size of a paper toy a paper pistol. As long as the folded propaganda shaking off the paper pistol, it implies the touch of receiving heartbreak news day and night. To imagine words can have more power.
Simultaneously, there are many sculptures of "Things" scattered in the exhibition hall, the bird-shaped sculptures that are clenched and squeezed between the hands of the soil, and the dogs and squirrels squeezed out with fingers. It is one of the extended monthly calendars: "Birds, Squirrels, and Police Dogs Without Names" describe the animals affected by smoke bombs and water jets at the scene of the struggle. Outside of the scene of struggle between people, there is a journey of life that seems far and near.The scene of "Without a Name" is a space turned out by the personal experience of facing the outside world. Even if the audience "passes" this place, the "body" can take away something.
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