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Videos
Night Stroll (Trailer)
2024Night Stroll explores queer desire and cultural identity through the context of the 1940s Chinese love song, Ye Lai Xiang (Fragrance of the Night). Censored by the Republic of China due to the singer’s complex identity, the song was performed by Li Hsiang-Lan (the stage name of Yoshiko Yamaguchi) whose background encompassed multiple cultures. The lyrics evoke a yearning for love in a dreamlike garden on a summer night. In Night Stroll, an anonymous adolescent cruises through a decaying domestic landscape, evoking a Taiwanese interior intertwined with the unsettling presence of construction sites—pylons, sirens, and scaffolding. The protagonist grapples with a fractured sense of self through a visceral monologue and performs the love song through body gestures that shift between expressive and repressive. As the night unfolds, the domestic space becomes alien, and the unfamiliar transforms into intimacy.
Added on: January 10, 2025
Endearing Insanity (Excerpt)
2022HD video with stereo sound, 9 minutes. Endearing Insanity explores the longing for connection and visibility in a displaced environment. Set within a confined apartment, the protagonist, trapped in various enclosed spaces such as a cabinet, microwave, and sink, performs a monologue while waiting for someone to visit. The text, drawn from online message boards, oscillates between sincerity and absurdity, while a layered soundscape of liquid, wind, and drums heightens the tension of everyday life. Blending elements of horror and erotica, Endearing Insanity examines the intersection of sensuality and terror. Through this sensual performance, the protagonist draws the audience into an intimate, precarious world, asserting control over their own isolation. The work embraces and interrogates contradictory notions, blurring boundaries between the seductive and the repulsive, the private and the public, and the self and the other.
Added on: January 10, 2025