FM100.8
CHANG Li-Ren, CHENG Yuan and RUI Lanxin
Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
- Title
- FM100.8
- Gallery
- Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 26 min
- Format & Technical
Single-channel video, colour, sound
- CHANG Li-Ren / CHENG Yuan / RUI Lanxin, FM100.8, Single-channel video, colour sound, 26min, 2019. Courtesy the artists and Chi-Wen Gallery.
First shown at the Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab as part of a larger site-specific installation at Taiwan’s Former Air Force Command Headquarters, the work reflects on the period around the Republic of China’s 100th anniversary, when the Air Force began relocating its operations. The video explores the remnants and atmosphere of this historic site, evoking memories, lingering consciousness, echoes of past discipline, and voices resonating through the buildings.
Although these scenes may seem obsolete, the empty corridors, standardized entrances, and deserted rooms symbolize the rigid structure and collective presence of the past. They connect shared experiences across various social contexts, weaving entanglements that transcend space and time.
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CHANG Li-Ren
1983, Taichung
CHANG Li-Ren se graduó del Departamento de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Arte de Taiwán en 2006 y obtuvo su maestría en el Instituto de Artes Plásticas de la Universidad Nacional de Artes de Tainan en 2011. La obra de Chang consiste principalmente en videoinstalaciones, arte conceptual y animaciones creadas a partir de sus técnicas de narración, que presentan un mundo virtual que existe en algún lugar entre la imaginación y la realidad. CHANG Li-Ren ha participado en numerosas exposiciones, festivales y bienales destacados, incluyendo: Battle City: Finale, MoNTUE, Taipéi (2024); Battle City: Yesterday’s Dream, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipéi (2023); Eye of the Cyclone – Taiwanese Art Today, Le lieu unique, Nantes (2022); Battle City: Narrative Thread, Centro de Arte y Cultura de NCCU, Taipéi (2022); Double Echoing, Pabellón C-Lab de la Bienal de Gwangju, Centro Cultural de Asia, Gwangju (2021); Wild Rhizome: 2018 Taiwan Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Taiwán, Taichung (2018).
CHENG Yuan
1990, Taipei
CHENG Yuan se graduó en el Departamento de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Taiwán en 2013 y obtuvo una maestría en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes de Taipéi en 2018. Su trabajo temprano se centró en la pintura y el arte basado en objetos, explorando aspectos pasados por alto pero omnipresentes de la vida cotidiana y las conexiones entre ellos. A través de estas investigaciones, buscaba reunir momentos fragmentados para revelar los aspectos invisibles pero siempre presentes de la existencia.
RUI Lanxin
RUI Lanxin es investigadora y curadora, actualmente radicada en Chengdu, China. Tiene un doctorado en Estudios Culturales y Artísticos Interculturales de la Universidad de Sichuan, donde su investigación se centra en la literatura de la memoria dentro del paisaje social chino y los estudios visuales.
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- Title
- Battle City 1 – The Glory of Taiwan & Battle City 2 – Economic Miracle
- Gallery
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- Year
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- Duration
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- Format & Technical
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- Contact
Chi-Wen Huang
chiwen.huang@chi-wen.com
Chang mostly creates video installations, conceptual projects, and animations. In his works, he aims to construct a virtual world situated in between reality and imagination by means of narration. The artist spent several years building a small-scale city that was not modeled on any existing one but instead was constructed on the basis of his impressions of cities and his memories as a child. The first two episodes of this project, Battle City 1 – The Glory of Taiwan and Battle City 2 – Economic Miracle, will both be screened at the fair.
The first episode, The Glory of Taiwan, depicts collective hysteria in the face of incompetence. The second episode, Economic Miracle, portrays an imagination of how capitalism operates in its extreme form in a city. An unrecognized political entity has been transformed into a special economic zone, where ideological martial law has been replaced by economic martial law to further control the population. It is this form of microcosmic politics that the city model attempts to represent.
The storyline starts from a character, Chen Chih-Chiang, a nobody with a lowly socioeconomic status. After the pursuit of a woman he admires (Xiaoming) and being turned down, Chen becomes a terrorist attempting to destroy the world out of despair. Subsequently, he ends up being wanted by the government and the one whom every person in Taiwan is after. The U.S. government, as the protector of Taiwan, is so worried that they send an army for military operations, which further results in countries around the world setting up military bases in Taipei.
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