作品介紹
The term “Fabricating Mandarin Duck” in Chinese originated from Wangan Island and Jiangjun Islet in Penghu, which means "the construction of the 24th Base of Shinyo Tokubetsu Kogekitai (naval suicide squad).”
This artwork continues with the artist’s recent series of OHP installations, and interweaves two narratives of the gloomy war history during the end of Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwan and the history of misusing and misappropriating the name of a famous waterfowl “Mandarin Duck (Yuan1 Yang1)” in Chinese literature, which vaguely correspond to each other. Through various approaches of geopolitics, biology and deconstruction of literary texts, the name of the Japanese naval base “Mandarin Duck Cave” seems to validate the inevitable and absurd fate of the species.
This is Taiwan's “allegory of the cave” that reflects our truth, distortion as well as the eternal blind spot in the gloomy darkness.
作者介紹
Chih Chung Chang’s practice, comprising migration, residency, field study and project-based work, focuses on rapidly changing environments involving ships, islands, ocean and harbors. Through a process of textual and spatial investigation, gathering, interweaving and reconstruction, he explores universal experiences between humanity, civilization and nature that are mutually shaping, along with the tensions and gray areas embedded therein.
使用媒材
Video installation: OHPs, cyanotype and embroidery on fabric, anti-fouling paint, gesso & graphite on MDF, photography, readymades, marine debris
作品尺寸
Dimensions variable
