Single-channel video installation, Stereo Sound
12’00”
In the past 40 years, Taiwan’s chip manufacturing capabilities has transformed the island nation into a global epicenter of technological production. Within this system, technical objects are continuously produced, exhausted, discarded, and reborn—processes that remain deeply entangled with everyday life and collective identity of Taiwanese society.
The video interweaves a dream-like sequence of immersion, fabrication, spinning, and urban work-life environments that power and are powered by semiconductors. The soundtrack blends between mechanical operations, slowed corporate choruses, and recordings from a qigong practitioner.
The refined process of tempering a technical object is akin to the disciplined training of a martial artist, in which the mind and body is continually sculpted and cultivated into technological greatness.
Riding the high and low tides of windy rain, coming and goings cause an invisible stirring. A wafer cassette flows and drifts in a dynamic state of symbiotic co-existence.
Still of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Courtesy of the artist.
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Photo Courtesy: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO
Installation View of Wafer Bearer Deep Rain, 2022. Photo Courtesy: MOCA Taipei / ANPIS FOTO