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exhibition

The Alp                           
The Bedroom                 
The Cable              
The Camera (16)         
The Camera (17)             
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate            
The Jog             
The Lighting           
The Link             
The Looty           
The Map             
The Mask           
The Postcard        
The Route          
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture    
The Smart City   
The Toyota    
The Vitrine      

Bengawan Solo            
Café Togo           
Songs of SPECX         
The Currency-Sensing 01         
The Currency-Vinyl          
The Gesture I         
The Gesture II        
The Guestbook            
The Sallow Sea          


Ghost In The Sea            
Too Loud A Dust            
On The Faience Of Your Eyes       
There Are Lights That Never Go Out
I'll Be Back   
Resistance is Futile      Modern Life is Dull       

The  Link    /   鏈  結


2024-on going
video installation
1920 x 1080, 3 Channels
work commissioned by The Hong Foundation
video trailer ︎                                                      
As a series of abolitionist movements unfolded in the early 19th century, Western colonial empires encountered a severe shortage of labour in their tropical plantations worldwide. Coolies from Asia emerged as ideal substitutes, sustaining production tasks necessary for trade. These coolies, supplementing the human resource shortfall after the abolition of the slave trade, not only altered the distribution of agriculture, commodities, minerals, and natural resources in the Global South but also influenced the dispersion and aggregation of Asian ethnicities. From the portraits of coolies captured by British colonists in the past to the blueprint of the “World Digital Brain” crafted by Chinese multinational corporations through submarine cable connections, The Link endeavours to dismantle the gaze of con- trol technique and colonialism by regarding the islands in the Afrasian Sea as “key points” in this technical network through intricate image appropriation and observation, thereby reflecting on the history of exchanges in contemporary global waters across intertwined timelines. This film was produced in collaboration with the institute DGAP (German Coun- cil on Foreign Relations) in German, Rongxing Hakka Opera Troupe in Taiwan and the Aapravasi Ghat, the museum of Coolie histoy in Mauritius.

Installation view at Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) in Taipei, Taiwan, 202. Photograph by Sean Wang / The Hong Foundation

Special thanks for the support from The Hong Foundation and Foison Art Studio

Related Information ︎
︎︎︎ Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab               
︎︎︎ e-flux                                                                 
︎︎︎ Hong Foundation                                                                   


work

The Alp        
The Bedroom           
The Cable              
The Camera (16)        
The Camera (17)        
The Camera (36)
The Camera (65)
The Chat
The Cultural Center
The Dust
The Figure
The Gate           
The Jog            
The Lighting          
The Link             
The Looty           
The Map             
The Mask           
The Postcard       
The Route         
The Sallow Man
The Sculpture   
The Smart City   
The Toyota    
The Vitrine     


collective

Bengawan Solo           
Café Togo          
Songs of SPECX          The Currency-Sensing 01   The Currency-Vinyl    The Gesture I         
The Gesture II          The Guestbook            The Sallow Sea         


exhibition

Ghost In The Sea       Too Loud A Dust           
On The Faience Of Your Eyes   There Are Lights That Never Go Out         I'll Be Back           Resistance is Futile    
Modern Life is Dull