INSTALLATION

2001-2007

INSECURITY

FEAR OF THE TINY SPACE
1997-2000

MEASURE-2

STUPID

UNBALANCED

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.

IMMIGRATION

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 ..."
- By Ptera Bibeau, NY ARTS

The San Francisco Bay Guardian

BODY TEMPORARY

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

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.

HOW ARE YOU?

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

Mix Media(Paper, Frame,...etc.)/ 2003

A big "fuck you."

Read the whole thing and take it seriously.
READ

FATIGUE

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

FEAR OF THE TINY SPACE Mix Media Paper, desk, lamp,...etc. 2001

PULL UP- 2

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

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.

PULL UP - 1

Photographic Paper,Image Out put 2000

It hurts!

MEASURE-2

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.

Memory . Symbol - 2

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

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.

MEASURE-1

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

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.