2001-2007
UNBALANCED IMMIGRATION BODY TEMPORARY INSECURITY HOW
ARE YOU? A
RESUME FATIGUE FEAR
OF THE TINY SPACE
1997-2000
PULL
UP- 2 MARTYRDOM PULL
UP - 1 MEASURE-2
MEMORY
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UNBALANCED

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Video Installation/Mixed-Media (TV,
video, stereos, amplifier, DVD player, wires, and power strip), 2007
This work is designed for "2nd Garage Biannual - Wunderkammer "(May/2007). The installation has one TV monitor and two speakers placed on the right and left sides of the monitor. When a speaker makes sound or noise, the parrakeet runs away to the opposite deirection, and the video also tilts.
The noise is mixed with lots of sounds recorded from garages, including engine starting, garage door openning, car alarms, ...etc. The sound are stereo(right and left), and the image of the parakeet moves right to left or left to right based on which speaker is making noise. See video clip.
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IMMIGRATION
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Mixed media (live ants, soil, white chocolate, fish tank), 20"x10.5"x12", collaboration with James T. Hong, 2004
People are afraid of the rising tide of
color, and the changing demographics, but nothing can, and
nothing will change the movement of peoples. Even terrorists
are immigrants, albeit destructive ones. Migration is fact;
immigration is destiny.
The disappearance of White America could
mean the end of the United States of America as we have known
it. The West could be reduced to Europe and few lightly populated
overseas European settler countries. Without America, the
West becomes a miniscule and declining part of the world’s
population on a small and inconsequential peninsula at the
extremity of the Eurasian land mass. This is projection as
truth.
White America will change inexorably,
and we will change as God watches.
"...The works exhibited
a steadfast individualism as well as a commitment to difficult
subject matter, including Americanism and cultural migration
processes. Artists Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong presented
Immigration, a mixed media piece that utilized live red ants
making their home in the dirt of a small-scale, ivory colored
America encased in a glass tank. Sophisticated and removed
to the point of parody, Chen and Hong captured scattered and
loosely bound concepts of home, America, separation, significance
of space and assimilation, while leaving no certain departure
or arrival points ..."
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By Ptera Bibeau, NY ARTS
The
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
BODY
TEMPORARY
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Video Installation, 2003
This work focuses on the temporal
and cyclical moments of an animal’s body – from the inside
to the outside. In other words, the earth is ingested, digested,
and then returned to the Earth.
A moving image of
a cow excreting will be projected right into the interior
of the toilet. The audio will be of excreta dropping. Two
speakers will be hidden in the corners. |
INSECURITY
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Mix Media 45 Pictures, (3 x 3
inch / each), 2003
This piece reflects our paranoiac society, where in each picture a set of eyes peers at the viewer. Since the motivation of the eyes is unstated, the act of looking at you becomes an end in itself.
To paraphrase Nietzsche, when you look into the abyss, it stares
back at you.
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HOW
ARE YOU?
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Mix Media Mix Media(Video
loop, Tape recorder,...etc.)/ 2003
The idea is to reverse the typical power relationship between
human and pet bird, where birds are taught to speak the language
of humans through interminable repetition. Here the human is
trying to mimic the birds, and with some difficulty. The constant
chirping of the recorder forces the mouth to "parrot" the noises.
Just as it is unnatural for the parroting human, perhaps it
is unnatural for the bird to speak human language. |
A
RESUME
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Mix Media(Paper,
Frame,...etc.)/ 2003
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A big "fuck you."
Read the whole thing and take it seriously.
READ |
FATIGUE
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Mix Media(Slide Projector,
Desk, Chair, ... etc.)/ 2002
In this installation, the spectator becomes
the participant. He or she experiences the piece in the
same position as the subject represented in the slides:
namely sitting down and resting his or her chin on a pillow.
Here the feeling of boredom that one might feel in a museum
or gallery is incarnated. In other words, the physical act
of being-bored is an essential part of the installation’s
design.  See detail
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FEAR OF THE TINY SPACE Mix
Media Paper, desk, lamp,...etc. 2001
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PULL
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Transpanrency,
Image out put 2000
I hope
the viewers can feel the anxiety caused by these pictures. Between
the work and the viewers, the viewers would have shocked and uncomfortable
experiences that were similar to mine in the period of the work production.
The four pictures of pulled-up thumbnails were the output of transparent
sticker. They were stuck on the sliding windows of the second floor
in Leisure Art Center, where happened to face the crossroad of Chung-Shan
North road, one of the busy crossroads in Taipei. |
MARTYRDOM
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Mix
Media(Spacimen of Mosquitoes, Neon Light, etc...) 2000
A rectangular white rack with the electron tube of neon. The collected
dead mosquitoes were positioned in this rack.
I killed mosquitoes when
they were biting me. I collected all those mosquitoes
that were killed, and regarded them as the deceased of worship.
Simultaneously, the behind of the work expressed that I, as an artist,
had a monotonous life at that time. |
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PULL
UP - 1
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Photographic
Paper,Image Out put 2000
It hurts! |
MEASURE-2
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Graph
paper, Tracer, ...etc. 1999
Tracing some parts of human bodies on the grid papers without accurate
proportion, and hanging the papers on the wall with frames.
Continuing the same topic, but this work is much more subjective.
I fabricate the measurement that is similar to the established units
to emphasize the existence of the subjective and individual, and the
international acknowledged measurement is ironically positioned nest
to the papers. However, which one is the "Truth"? The comments of
the spectators are diverse; your discourse and mine, and even the
discourse of the person concerned (he or she maybe lie), none of them
can be promised to be true.
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Memory
. Symbol - 2
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 Trace
paper, Ink, Timber,...etc. 1999
Piling up the tracing papers on the bookrack.
Continuing the same topic, I attempt to express the hysterical condition of every second in every moment in the form
of stack. |
Memory
. Symbol - 1
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Trace
paper, Ink, Timber,...etc. 1999
Keying some symbols in the computer files, then printing on tracing
papers and sticking them on the walls. There are 12 pieces
of papers in total.
No matter the public conversation or the private diary, or even the
silent meditation, people seem to be surrounded and repressed by words
and messages. This work explores the feeling of helplessness. The symbol (ex. a
point) can be the minimal unit of language. I use computer to make
the symbol mechanical, statistical, and present this work in the form
of a diary and documentation. |
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MEASURE-1
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Graph
paper, Tracer, ...etc. 1998Trace the sketch of the face on the grid papers; write down the measurement
of every part of the face and hang them on the wall with frames.
It expresses the ambiguity of the subjective and objective. "Gossip"
is the brief vocabulary that represents the work. It designates that
when people receive the incomplete messages with their perception,
they would still delete some messages that they do not think necessary,
and re-examine the messages according to their instant emotions and
consciousness. In this process, "Truth" is destined to be lost. This
work does not strive to judge the right and wrong, but tries to stimulate
the thinking about humanity. |
STUPID
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Red
Sticker, 1997
Carving the word "stupid" on the acrylic stickers and paste them on
the walls, floors and glasses in the North and South gallery. Each word
is 30x110 cm.
It is stupid. |
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