區秀詒
1.1 Tiger Cave, part of The Extreme Journey of Perwira and the Calm Sea: In 3 Acts 靜海武士的極盡旅程(三幕劇)之 1.1 老虎洞 Japanese intelligence agent Tani Yutaka, a member of the F agency, one of Japan’s intelligence agencies in the 1940s, spoke fluent Malay. In 1911, he was born in Fukuoka, Japan, and later moved with his parents…
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克里斯計畫番外篇：北辰南星黑蝙蝠 video installation, 9’57”, 2020 (commissioned by Taipei Fine Arts Museum) The Kris Project+: Polaris, Southern Stars and the Darken Bats is the final chapter of the “Kris Project” series launched in 2016. Centering around the Malayan cinema magnate Loke Wan Tho (who died in a plane crash in Shengang, Taiwan in 1964) as the…
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Prelude: Song of Departure part of The Extreme Journey of Perwira and the Calm Sea: In 3 Acts 靜海武士的極盡旅程(三幕劇)之序 : 啟航之歌 04:45 mins, Single-Channel Video, 2019 “The Extreme Journey of Perwira and the Calm Sea: In 3 Acts” is Au’s continuation of the play“ The Nanyang Intelligence Bureau” (2018), as part of the “Nanyang” project.…
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2018 (commissioned by Taipei Biennial 2018) 椰林、檳城艷與情報員的生死戀情：一次放送計畫 In the early twentieth century, the imperial Japanese government attempted to transform northern South Taiwan into a ‘paradise’, simply in order to provide a test case for further expansion into Southeast Asia in the future. Enormous quantities of tropical plants were transported to Taiwan, including coconut trees, which were seen as…
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World Premiere: 5 – 7 October, 2018 Experimental Theatre, Taipei Since early 20th century, a huge laboratory became the paradise of the northernmost of the south, and a preparation site for future power expansion into Southeast Asia. The Nanyang Intelligence Bureau is initiated by visual artist Sow-Yee AU’s exploration into the relationship between physical body…
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Castle, Valley, Anonymous Island and Their Return to the Moon （2017） video/text/documents/objects commissioned by Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong) Jim disappeared into the forest on 26 March 1967. Inside his room in the Moonlight Villa, a bomoh found a script written with invisible ink, a book with sketches, some secret coordinates, plans to go to outer space, and mysterious sculptures…
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Chen YowRuu X Au Sow Yee 當我們都不在了，記憶如何存在而不過渡於寂靜之中 陳侑汝 X 區秀詒 物件、聲音、動力、影像裝置 ／2017 objects, sound, kinetic, film and video installation／2017 / dimensions variable If We Do Not Exist, How Could Our Memories Remain and not Pass into Silence constructs a “memory map” between one object and another. These objects hint at the sum total of human activity. Translated…
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東京之夜：克里斯計畫III的想像調查 wooden light box. wood laser cutouts. text
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Using both film and fiction as a method, Sow-Yee took up the heteronym, Ravi, a fictional filmmaker lost in the forest of Mengkerang, imagining and recreating a film studio as well as its’ ghosts and remnants. Mengkerang is an imaginary island/place located somewhere within the South China Sea (whichever you would like to call it).…
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If the Party Goes On. 序曲：To the Party If the party goes on. Prelude: To the Party Video, text. Length: 4’41’’ 2016 (Quoted from Portrait Portrait @ Taipei Contemporary Art Centre) 【肖像擺 – 作品介紹：If the Party Goes On. 序曲：To the Party】 《If the party goes on. 序曲》是區秀詒在本展覽中發表的首部曲，該計畫也是《克里斯計劃》的第二階段。從Ravi遺留在棉佳蘭叢林裡「克里斯電影工作室」中的手稿為主要文本架構，藝術家從一個未竟的場景裡——國泰電懋董事長陸運濤由於1964年神岡空難的關係，錯失原訂在圓山大飯店的一場影界大老聚會——展開對冷戰歷史後場線索的再連繫。國泰電懋這間跨國電影工業公司所得以揭示的冷戰權力佈局、個體到國族的文化主體間各種邊界的演繹，將從這個序曲獲得相關暗示：關於地方、文化、信仰、資源、掠奪等。 【Portrait Portrait – work introduction: If the party…
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