Catalogue > At random

Narrated by Chinese Malaysian singer Fish Leong, the project ?March 14, Hong Kong Coliseum? follows her tour through different cities in Asia, including Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Singapore, Malaysia, Beijing, Guangzhou, Kunming, and Chengdu. In Chinese world, almost everyone knows Fish Leong and her voice. Here was a huge entertainment industry with a pan-Asian approach. The tour moved from city to city, and wherever it went, the stage, lighting, and songs at each event were similar, and each concert scene was also a confrontation between globalization and local cultures. In this exhibition, I present a single-channel version and make two images juxtaposed. The video shows an empty concert scene with neither the singer nor audiences. The real event becomes an enormous and fictional scene. Here, the concerts represent globalization, but the video work makes this connection drift apart.

I live and work in Taipei, Taiwan. I am now a full-time artist. My method is a specific kind of ?Narrative? -- a way of documenting that interferes with the reality of the text, by focusing on a site?s specific and peculiar characteristics, such as memory, imagination, or identification. With these characteristics in mind, I develop a narrative, and between the reality of the text and the fictional narrative, I construct a myth or a legend. I am also one of the members from Open-Contemporary Art Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This art space consists of numerous young artist and runs over 8 years. Through practicing organizing exhibitions and writing, I try to expand art influences to the society.